Culture of bacteria from bronchial secretions in respiratory patients has low sensitivity and does not allow for complete assessment of microbial diversity across different bronchial compartments. In addition, a significant number of clinical studies are based on sputum samples, and it is not known to what extent they describe the real diversity of the mucosa. In order to identify previously un...

BACKGROUND Allergic rhinitis and asthma may be associated, bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) is quite common in AR patients. It has been reported that allergen bronchial challenge induces nasal inflammation. Methacholine (MCH) is a stimulus able to elicit BHR. There is no study that investigated the effect of MCH bronchial challenge on the nose. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate w...

Rupture of the bronchus has become more common in the last decade, mainly due to an increase in road traffic accidents. In spite of this increase it is still relatively rare, and most thoracic surgeons do not have the personal experience of treating more than two or three cases in their life-time. In 1947 Kinsella and Johnsrud reviewed the world literature on intrathoracic rupture of the trache...

•Almost all previous attempts to study the bronchial circulation have been limited to measurements of blood flow in the bronchial arteries and bronchopulmonary anastomoses. There have been two studies devoted to estimations of blood flow in the bronchial veins of the normal dog. In 1931, Berry and Daly perfused in dogs either the posterior bronchial artery of one lung or the entire aortic segme...

background: congenital lobar emphysema, also called infantile lobar emphysema, is a respiratory disease that occurs in infants when air enters the lungs and cannot leave easily. it results from cartilage deficiency and bronchomalacia causing distal air trapping and respiratory distress. in this study, we present a case of endobronchial polyp mimicking congenital lobar emphysema. case presentati...

Unilateral Pulmonary Artery Agenesis (UPAA) is a rare congenital anomaly during the 4 th  week of gestational age. It is defined as an absence of pulmonary parenchyma and its supporting artery. A 9-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of chronic cough. Chest examination showed a decrement in lung sound of right hemi-thorax with expiratory wheeze. Chest radiography (CXR) revealed a...

MYSIR’s Abstracts 21. EP01: LARGEST CASE SERIES OF FLEXIBLE BRONCHOSCOPY REMOVAL ASPIRATED SCARF PINS 2. EP02: TO COMPARE THE EFFICACY AND DIAGNOSTIC YIELD BRONCHOSCOPIC BIOPSY USING CONVENTIONAL FORCEPS VERSUS 1.1MM CRYOPROBE IN CENTRAL AIRWAY LESION 3. EP03: PREDICTIVE RISK FACTORS FOR PNEUMOTHORAX AFTER FLUOROSCOPIC GUIDED TRANSBRONCHIAL LUNG 4. EP04: BRONCHIAL WASHING BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE...

Measurement ofnonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness remains largely a research tool in asthma, and its usefulness in the assessment and management of asthma is poorly defined. We StUdied the relationship of bronchial hyperresponsiveness to the clinical severity of asthma in 54 asthmatic subjects. In order to find out whether measurement of bronchial hyperresponsiveness could be used to pred...

In seven patients with nonmalignant disease, we bronchoscopically observed various types of bronchial arterial lesions that may have caused hemorrhage. Five of the seven showed a bulging lesion, and the other two demonstrated an intrabronchial mass. We also examined these seven patients using selective bronchial arteriography. Herein we report our comparative study of the bronchoscopic findings...