bronchial thermoplasty
Bronchial thermoplasty in asthma: current perspectives
... Abstract: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a novel therapy for patients with severe asthma. Using radio frequency thermal energy, it aims to reduce the airway smooth muscle mass. Several clinical trials have ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty: a new therapeutic option for the treatment of severe, uncontrolled asthma in adults
... based. Bronchial thermoplasty is a nonpharmacological, device-based therapy that delivers controlled thermal energy to the airway wall as part of a series of three bronchoscopic ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty: implementing best practice in the era of cost containment
... BT, bronchial thermoplasty; CHF, congestive heart failure; CXR, chest X-ray; DLco, diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide; ER, emergency room; FEV1, forced expiratory volume 1 second; IgE, ...
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Nerve ablation after bronchial thermoplasty and sustained improvement in severe asthma
... (Bronchial Thermoplasty System Model ATS2–5 and Model ATS200 Boston Scientific Corporation, Marlborough, MA, USA) ...subsegmental bronchial car- ina were ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty and the role of airway smooth muscle: are we on the right direction?
... of bronchial smooth muscle remains unclear. Bronchial thermoplasty is an endoscopic procedure that is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of severe refractory ...
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Near-fatal asthma responsive to mepolizumab after failure of omalizumab and bronchial thermoplasty
... Abstract: Severe asthma affects between 5% and 10% of patients with asthma worldwide and requires best standard therapies at maximal doses, but there is a subgroup of patients refractory to all treatments. We share a ...
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Improvement of exertional dyspnea and breathing pattern of inspiration to expiration after bronchial thermoplasty
... Background: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic treatment that can ameliorate the symptoms of severe asthma. However, little is known about the mechanism by which BT improves exertional dyspnea ...
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Resistance of the respiratory system measured with forced oscillation technique (FOT) correlates with bronchial thermoplasty response
... Bronchial Thermoplasty (BT) is an endoscopic treatment for patients with severe asthma. It uses radiofrequency energy delivered to the medium and larger airways to re- duce airway smooth muscle (ASM) mass ...
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Long-term (5 year) safety of bronchial thermoplasty: Asthma Intervention Research (AIR) trial
... agonists, the current standard-of-care medications. Three randomized clinical trials in patients with differ- ing severity of asthma have demonstrated the safety of this device-based treatment out to one year [9-11]. In ...
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<p>Recent Developments In Bronchial Thermoplasty For Severe Asthma</p>
... Bronchial thermoplasty is a non-pharmacological inter- vention that applies thermal energy to the airways with the aim of reducing the amount of airway smooth muscle and improving asthma ...of ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty reduces airway resistance
... After three randomized controlled clinical trials, and three real-world clinical registries, we now have a chorus of evidence informing us that asthmatic patients feel bet- ter following bronchial ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty: activations predict response
... the Bronchial Thermoplasty Global Registry [16] may provide an ideal opportunity to undertake this ana- lysis and further examine the role of radiofrequency ...
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Utility of a thin bronchoscope in facilitating bronchial thermoplasty
... at bronchial thermoplasty and the degree of improvement in an asthmatic patient’s ...for bronchial thermoplasty has an outer diameter of ...facilitates bronchial thermoplasty by ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty reduces gas trapping in severe asthma
... Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) offers an alternative therapeutic option for patients with severe asthma, de- fined by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) as those with persistent sympto[r] ...
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In vitro, in silico and in vivo study challenges the impact of bronchial thermoplasty on acute airway smooth muscle mass loss
... in bronchial biopsies obtained post-BT but our combined in vitro and in silico modelling suggest that the extent of this reduction in ASM mass cannot be entirely explained by a direct acute effect of thermal ...
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Heat-induced necrosis after bronchial thermoplasty: a new concern?
... peri- bronchial consolidations and ground-glass opacities were found in all treated lobes on day 1, with lower lobes showing complete collapse in three ...partial bronchial occlusions (63%), and ...
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Bronchial thermoplasty increases airway volume measured by functional respiratory imaging
... The low CT density of air was used to identify and re- construct airways within the lung. Following automated segmentation of the bronchial tree, the airways were manually checked and corrected. The trachea and ...
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Emerging therapies for severe asthma
... blockers, bronchial thermoplasty plus a range of other anti-inflammatory agents that have been recently licensed or are at an advanced stage of development for patients with severe asthma (Figure ...
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Comparative evaluation of adding clonadine v/s dexmedetomidine during bier’s block in upper limb orthopaedic surgeries.
... mass. Bronchial thermoplasty is a procedure were thermal energy is delivered in a controlled manner to the hypertrophied airway wall under various bronchoscopic procedures in order to produce reduction in ...
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Targeted lung denervation in sheep: durability of denervation and long-term histologic effects on bronchial wall and peribronchial structures
... on bronchial wall Compared to proximal tissue samples which represent an intra-animal control, the TLD treatment effect con- sisted of a band of remodeled tissue in the outer layers of the bronchial wall ...
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