Effect of Bronchial Thermoplasty on Air Trapping Assessed by Xenon Ventilation Computed Tomography

OBJECTIVE: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic procedure for patients with severe asthma. Although it has been suggested that BT works by reducing airway smooth muscle, the detailed mechanism underlying its effects is still unknown. METHODS: We performed xenon ventilation computed tomogra...

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Autores principales: Dokuni, Ryota, Kobayashi, Kazuyuki, Ohno, Yoshiharu, Nagano, Tatsuya, Tamura, Daisuke, Umezawa, Kanoko, Katsurada, Naoko, Nakata, Kyosuke, Yamamoto, Masatsugu, Tachihara, Motoko, Kamiryo, Hiroshi, Nishimura, Yoshihiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8313928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34193773
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.6493-20

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