Extract The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) defines severe asthma as a subset of difficult- to-treat asthma that is refractory to oral or inhaled corticosteroid therapies despite …
S Verbanck, M Hughes - Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Dissolved-phase 129 Xe MRI metrics suggest that gas diffusion may be more compromised at submaximal lung inflation compared to maximal inflation. We …
BACKGROUND: Asthma is recognized as an inflammatory disease of the airways, but inflammation may also affect the parenchyma and pulmonary vasculature. Hyperpolarized …
INTRODUCTION: Abnormal ventilation is the functional consequence of airway obstruction. In patients with severe asthma, ventilation patterns visualized by magnetic resonance …