...Bingbing Wang; Hongxia Duan; Xuan Li; Xuan Long; Shuanshuan Xie; Changhui Wang Introduction: Bronchoscopic spray cryotherapy (SCT) is a novel treatment showing promise for chronic bronchitis (CB), characterized by excessive mucus secretion and productive cough. A large animal model for preclinical...

...William Krimsky; Robert E. Neal II; Victor Kim Patients living with chronic bronchitis (CB) suffer from physical limitations and poor quality of life. In general, treatment options that directly address the mucus hypersecretion component of CB are quite limited. Chronic airway inflammation...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Chronic bronchitis Chronic heart failure Emphysema Multimorbidity Ageing Frailty...

... Different therapies can be applied for the prevention of chronic bronchitis exacerbations: vaccinations, antibiotics, immunomodulating and mucoregulating drugs. Among the latter, ambroxol was tested in a multicenter open study in 5,635 outpatients during a 6-month winter period. The results...

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... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hypoxemia Chronic bronchitis Respiratory stimulation Almitrine Respiration 48: 285-295(1985) © 1985 S. Karger A G...

..., namely chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema, sometimes simultaneously present in the same subject. Objectives: The aim of our study was to compare sputum inflammatory markers in patients with different phenotypes of chronic airway obstruction. Methods: Forty-five subjects (forced...

...S.W. Clarke Prevention is the key to eradicating chronic bronchitis. Smoking is the prime factor involved. Quitting smoking is difficult even with modern aids such as counselling, filters, substitutes, hypnosis and acupuncture, and the success rate is only 20%. Passive smoking is also injurious...

...Gérard Huchon Among the risk factors for chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive lung disease, only smoking and α 1 -antitrypsin deficiency effects have been well demonstrated. Other factors, as air pollution, occupational exposure and childhood lung diseases may have an influence...

...G.J. Wesseling; E.F.M. Wouters Impedance measurements of the respiratory system were performed by means of the technique of forced oscillations to study the mechanical characteristics of the respiratory system in 33 patients with chronic bronchitis without spirometric evidence of airway obstruction...

...L. Trevisani; S. Sartori; M.R. Bovolenta; M. Mazzoni; P. Pazzi; S. Putinati; A. Potena A morphometric study was carried out on biopsy specimens taken from 40 smokers (27 with chronic bronchitis and 13 asymptomatic) submitted to bronchoscopy to identify and quantify the possible structural...

...B. Emmerich; K. Pachmann; D. Milatovic; H.P. Emslander To clarify the mode of action of an oral bacterial extract (OM-85 BV) on local airway immunity pre- and posttherapeutic washings from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of 28 adult patients with nonobstructive chronic bronchitis were analysed...

...AM. Fietta; C. Merlini; M. Uccelli; G. Gialdroni Grassi; C. Grassi The immunological and clinical effects of two oral treatment schedules of RU 41740 (standard for 3 months vs. long-term for 6 months) were assessed in 40 patients with chronic bronchitis by a controlled, double-blind, randomized...

...M. Luisetti; P.D. Piccioni; A.M. Donnetta; A. Bulgheroni; V. Peona The protease-antiprotease imbalance is thought to be involved in a variety of destructive lung diseases: pulmonary emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and adult respiratory distress syndrome. Bronchoalveolar lavage...

... of exacerbations in 29 evaluable patients with chronic bronchitis, out of 36 patients who entered the study. The drug enhanced the phagocytosis indexes of both polymorphonuclear and mononuclear phagocytes. Increased candidacidal activity of monocytes was also observed. These effects, already detectable after one...

...B. Cvoriscec; M. Ustar; R. Pardon; I. Palecek; A. Stipic-Markovic; B. Zimic 104 patients with chronic bronchitis were treated under randomized double-blind conditions with either Broncho-Vaxom® (BV) or a placebo over a period of 6 consecutive months. The beneficial effect of BV was manifested...

... by chronic bronchitis, preselected for their mucociliary responsiveness to an inhaled β 2 -agonist, were divided into two groups (matched by number, sex, age and FEV 1 %) and orally treated with placebo or erdosteine (300 mg t.i.d.) for 8 days. Their MCT was assessed by the bronchofiberscopy technique just...

...L. Trevisani; S. Sartori; P. Pazzi; A. Potena; A. Aleotti; E. Grandi; G. Stabellini In order to quantify and classify ciliary changes of bronchial epithelium in chronic bronchitis, an ultrastructural study on biopsy specimens of 30 patients submitted to bronchoscopy was performed. Fourteen patients...

... smooth muscle particularly in medium sized bronchi. Three conditions contribute to COPD. In chronic bronchitis there is mucous hypersecretion with enlargement of tracheo-bronchial submucosal glands and a disproportionate increase of mucous acini. In small (peripheral) airways disease...

...K. Spiropoulos; D. Lymberopoulos; G. Garantziotis; C. Gogos The concentration of secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) has been measured by the immunodiffusion method in 28 chronic bronchitis patients (group A) and in 11 comparable patients receiving corticosteroid therapy (0.5 mg/kg/day prednisone...