Effect of Emphysema on CT Scan Measures of Airway Dimensions in Smokers

BACKGROUND: In CT scans of smokers with COPD, the subsegmental airway wall area percent (WA%) is greater and more strongly correlated with FEV(1) % predicted than WA% obtained in the segmental airways. Because emphysema is linked to loss of airway tethering and may limit airway expansion, increases...

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Hlavní autoři: Diaz, Alejandro A., Han, MeiLan K., Come, Carolyn E., San José Estépar, Raúl, Ross, James C., Kim, Victor, Dransfield, Mark T., Curran-Everett, Douglas, Schroeder, Joyce D., Lynch, David A., Tschirren, Juerg, Silverman, Edwin K., Washko, George R.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: American College of Chest Physicians 2013
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590885/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23460155
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.12-0039
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