Upper airway dimensions and movements in bronchial asthma

PW Collett, AP Brancatisano… - American Review of …, 1986 - atsjournals.org
… to measure changes in upper airways dimensions during induced asthma using X-ray …
airway muscles participate in the coordinated increase in respiratory muscle activity during asthma

Airway dimensions and pulmonary function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma

K Kurashima, T Hoshi, N Takayanagi, Y Takaku… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… To measure airway dimensions, we selected the posterior basal bronchus of the right lower
lobe. In this study, a subsegmental bronchus was defined as a 3rd-generation bronchus …

Airway dimensions in asthma and COPD in high resolution computed tomography: can we see the difference?

J Kosciuch, R Krenke, K Gorska, M Zukowska… - Respiratory …, 2013 - rc.rcjournal.com
… of the bronchial wall … bronchial lumen and wall dimensions in asthma and COPD patients,
in relation to disease severity, and to compare the airway dimensions in patients with asthma

[HTML][HTML] Correlation between airflow limitation and airway dimensions assessed by multidetector CT in asthma

M Hoshino, S Matsuoka, H Handa, T Miyazawa… - Respiratory …, 2010 - Elsevier
… limitation of asthma is more closely linked to airway dimensions of distal than proximal
airways. The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between airway wall …

[HTML][HTML] Airflow limitation and airway dimensions assessed per bronchial generation in older asthmatics

K Shimizu, M Hasegawa, H Makita, Y Nasuhara… - Respiratory …, 2010 - Elsevier
… of airways and measuring airway dimensions perpendicular to the long axis … airways, we
examined, in older patients with stable asthma, how inter-subject variation in airway dimensions

Computed tomography assessment of airways throughout bronchial tree demonstrates airway narrowing in severe asthma

PY Brillet, MP Debray, JL Golmard, YO Hmeidi… - Academic radiology, 2015 - Elsevier
… To analyze airway dimensions throughout the bronchial tree in severe asthmatic patients …
Our results showed that airway morphologic changes observed in severe asthmatic patients …

Airway wall geometry in asthma and nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis

S Siddiqui, S Gupta, G Cruse, P Haldar, J Entwisle… - Allergy, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… nine circular plastic tubes, dimensions [luminal area (LA: … asthma (19) and of airways
generations three to 12 (13). Tubes nine to six modelled the RB1 bronchus in health and in asthma

Three-dimensional upper-airway assessment in patients with bronchial asthma

AM Bandeira, PVP Oltramari-Navarro… - The Angle …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
dimensions of the UAWs in youths with and without asthma. The TV and the ONA had
significantly smaller dimensions for the asthmatic … strong relationship of asthma with alterations in …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory and structural changes in the small airways in bronchial asthma

WR Roche - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 1998 - atsjournals.org
… and bronchial wall of patients who had died of asthma and compared with to those from
asthmatic … In this study, none of the patients with bronchial asthma who died of other causes was …

Relationship of airway wall thickness to airway sensitivity and airway reactivity in asthma

A Niimi, H Matsumoto, M Takemura, T Ueda… - American journal of …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
… through the main bronchus and airway dimensions, assessed by examining all measurable
airways in excised canine lungs. They have found that ASM of airways with thicker walls was …