Routine bronchoscopy may clarify the treatment pathways for patients suffering from severe uncontrolled asthma (SUA) who are being considered for biologic therapy indicated for a T2 inflammation ...

(KUTV) What is Bronchial Thermoplasty? Dr. Danai Khemasuwan, an interventional pulmonologist from Intermountain Medical Center, met with 2News to go over how bronchoscopic treatment for asthma works.

Ten to 15 percent of people with asthma have severe asthma, a form of the disease that is not controlled by current medications. Many of these patients are prescribed increased dosages of ...

Background: In contrast to asthma, the indication for bronchodilators prior to bronchoscopy in patients with COPD has not been properly investigated. We therefore performed a randomized, double-blind, ...

San Francisco, CA, May 21, 2007 – Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure for the treatment of asthma, announced today the successful completion of ...

The word “asthma” doesn’t strike fear in the heart the way other illnesses do. Yet, when asthma is severe, it also can be a killer. And scary. Because not being able to breathe can send you to the ...

Up until now, if you suffer from asthma, medication has been the only treatment available to you for relief. But now, clinical researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) hope ...

People with severe asthma are getting a radically different treatment option: A way to snake a wire inside their lungs and melt off some of the tissue that squeezes their airways shut. Bronchial ...

This case presents a patient with poorly controlled asthma that remains refractory to treatment despite use of standard-of-care therapeutic options. For patients such as this, one needs to embark on ...

A new tool cools asthma by heating lung tissue to kill overgrown smooth muscle in airways, a hallmark of the disease. People with severe asthma who received the treatment experienced, on average, 10 ...