Nebulizer therapy in pulmonology: Review of the literature

AS Melani, LS Bracci - Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
… of nebulizer therapy, such as antibiotic management of endobronchial Pseudomonas
aeruginosa infection in fibrocystic patients, bronchodilator treatment of reversible airflow …

Nebulized bronchodilators for outpatient management of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

GL Colice - The American journal of medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
Reversibility tests in chronic obstructive airways disease: their … domiciliary nebulJser therapy.
Resp Meal. 1991;85:281-284. … volume nebulizer to metered-dose inhaler aerosoi therapy. …

Reversibility of airway obstruction in relation to prognosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Y Kawakami, F Kishi, K Dohsaka, Y Nishiura, A Suzuki - Chest, 1988 - Elsevier
… to compressor nebulizer therapy. However, whether bronchodilator therapy is advantageous
… and the other, our bronchial reversibility test not applicable on markedly disabled patients. …

Domiciliary Nebuliser Therapy—A Valuable Option in Chronic Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?

DJ Godden, A Robertson, N Currie… - Scottish medical …, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
… and after nebuliser supply were compared using Fisher's exact test. … nebulised therapy
may not be evident from formal trials ofbronchodilator reversibility'> and in this study nebulisers

Importance of drug delivery system in steroid aerosol therapy via nebulizer

C Terzano, L Allegra - Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2002 - Elsevier
… predictive values28 at basal lung function test in visit 0 with a reversibility of at least 15% and
… bronchial challenge test. The other 18 patients with normal basal lung function test showed …

Non-invasive markers of airway inflammation as predictors of oral steroid responsiveness in asthma

SA Little, GW Chalmers, KJ MacLeod, C McSharry… - Thorax, 2000 - thorax.bmj.com
… Spirometric tests, with reversibility to a β agonist (2.5 mg nebulised salbutamol), and induced
sputum (using nebulised 3% saline) were performed at recruitment and following treatment

Pulmonary function tests, sputum induction, and bronchial provocation tests: diagnostic tools in the challenge of distinguishing asthma and COPD phenotypes in …

E Dima, N Rovina, C Gerassimou… - … journal of chronic …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Reversibility test was performed 20 minutes after inhalation of 200 μg salbutamol via a
metered dose inhaler. ΔFEV 1 was calculated as: post-bronchodilator FEV 1 minus pre-…

Routine nebulized ipratropium and albuterol together are better than either alone in COPD

COMBIVENT Inhalation Solution Study Group - Chest, 1997 - Elsevier
… 4 test days, subjects in each treatmenttherapy and were not advanced to nebulizer therapy.
Of the patients who were given nebulizer therapy, eight preferred the spacer device therapy

Safety of sputum induction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

PH Rytila, AE Lindqvist… - European Respiratory …, 2000 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… %) of hypertonic saline nebulized by an ultrasonic nebulizer. … Patients with greater reversibility
in airway obstruction … by the MannWhitney U-test and Chi-squared test, when appropriate. …

Effects of ipratropium bromide nebulizer solution with and without preservatives in the treatment of acute and stable asthma

DH Bryant, P Rogers - Chest, 1992 - Elsevier
… All patients had documented reversible airways obstruction within one month of inclusion
of … within the 8 h preceding test drug administration. The tests on patients with acute asthma …