Nearly 43% of patients experienced severe asthma exacerbations, 7.9% experienced ED visits and 4.8% experienced hospitalizations 5 years after bronchial thermoplasty compared with 77.8%, 29.4% and ...

Small-airway obstruction, which cannot be seen with conventional X-rays, was observed in a virtual chest X-ray enhanced by phase-contrast imaging, according to study results published in ...

Foo CT, Donovan GM, Thien F, et al. Bronchial thermoplasty improves ventilation heterogeneity measured by functional respiratory imaging in severe asthma. J Asthma Allergy . 2024;17:399-409 doi:10 ...

Bronchial thermoplasty is a treatment for severe asthma. It's a way to open your airways. The procedure uses gentle heat to shrink the smooth muscles in your lungs -- the ones that tighten during ...

The removal of muscle tissue in the hyperactive airways of asthma patients by exposing the tissue to heat reduces disease exacerbations and significantly improves the patients' quality of life ...

An x-ray film of the chest taken with a portable machine was unsatisfactory because of ... et al. Effect of cortisone on bronchial asthma and hay fever occurring in subjects sensitive to ...

Chest x-ray films taken on January 16, 1950, ... A case of bronchial asthma is reported in which respiratory acidosis was aggravated by the administration of oxygen.