Longitudinal shape irregularity of airway lumen assessed by CT in patients with bronchial asthma and COPD

T Oguma, T Hirai, M Fukui, N Tanabe, S Marumo… - Thorax, 2015 - thorax.bmj.com
… the shape irregularity of the … bronchial subsegments on CT images. These new CT parameters,
as well as WA% and Ai, were compared among patients with COPD, patients with asthma

[HTML][HTML] A morphologic study of the airway structure abnormalities in patients with asthma by high-resolution computed tomography

D Wang, J Luo, W Du, LL Zhang, LX He… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Irregular (paracicatricial) emphysema was identified by the presence of emphysema … dilation,
and we found that patients with severe bronchial dilation had a longer asthma history (28.13…

Airway shape assessment with visual feed-back in asthma and obstructive diseases

C Fetita, M Ortner, PY Brillet… - Medical Imaging …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… This paper develops a fullyautomated airway shape assessment … notify the radiologist on
bronchus shape variations (stenoses, … variation, its shape and eventual irregularities are well …

Fractal geometry enables classification of different lung morphologies in a model of experimental asthma

M Obert, S Hagner, GA Krombach, S Inan, H Renz - Fractals, 2015 - World Scientific
… of the pathophysiology of asthma and are of central … The characterization of irregular
lung shapes is a major issue in … asthmatic mouse groups, before and after an acute asthma

Differentiation of quantitative CT imaging phenotypes in asthma versus COPD

S Choi, B Haghighi, J Choi… - BMJ open …, 2017 - bmjopenrespres.bmj.com
… of airway shape, was mostly altered in large airways and segmental bronchi in upper and
middle lobes. COPD demonstrated the greater degree of these alterations relative to asthma (…

Menstrual irregularity and asthma and lung function

FG Real, C Svanes, ER Omenaas, JM Antò… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2007 - Elsevier
… related to lung function and asthma, and whether body … irregular menstrual cycles were
reported by 313 women (19%). Oligomenorrhea was significantly associated with more asthma

Quantitative and morphological analysis of the vascular bed in bronchial biopsy specimens from asthmatic and non-asthmatic subjects

G Salvato - Thorax, 2001 - thorax.bmj.com
… two asthmatic and six non-asthmatic subjects; their diameter was 50 μm or more and their
walls were thin and irregular… In shape and structure these resembled the formations described …

Comparative Morphology of the Airways in Asthma and Chronic Obstrudive Pulmonary Disease

PK Jeffery - 1994 - atsjournals.org
… mild atopic asthma and that it is associated with the appearance of irregularly shaped cells
… to be increased in bronchial biopsies from symptomatic atopic asthmatic SUbjects(39), both …

Irreversiblity of remodeled features on high-resolution computerized tomography scans of asthmatic patients on conventional therapy: a 6-year longitudinal study

E Kurt, R Ozkan, A Orman, C Calisir… - Journal of Asthma, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… (when a dot-like, Y-shaped, or X-shaped opacity was seen a few millimeters away from
the … Irregular (paracicatricial) emphysema was defined as emphysema adjacent to areas of …

The pathology of bronchial asthma

HL Huber, KK Koessler - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1922 - jamanetwork.com
… a grave mistake to consider all cases of bronchial asthma as a … are almost or completely
occluded by screw-shaped clots … The heart was rapid and irregular and the blood contained an …