Immediate complications and flow volume changes during treatment phases of bronchial thermoplasty: a single-center descriptive study

Vijayan, Karthik; Karakattu, Sajin; Bansal, Apurva; Thomas, Akesh; Alazzeh, Ahmad; Minaoui, Wael El; Maisonet, Mildred

doi:10.1080/02770903.2021.1924775

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“…Although BT has provided a fresh perspective on treating severe asthma, there are concerns about the adverse effects and complications associated with BT. Studies have shown that patients treated with BT had a significantly higher incidence of adverse events during treatment compared to controls, with most adverse events (e.g., acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma, hypoxemia, bronchospasm, minor bleeding, pneumonia, and non-ischaemic chest pain ) occurring after BT (29)(30)(31). More severe events have also been reported.…”

Section: Adverse Reactions and Complicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent advances in bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma: a narrative review

Wu¹,

Li²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Ann Transl Med

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Background and Objective: Severe asthma refers to asthma that requires step 4 or 5 therapy recommended by Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to prevent it from becoming uncontrolled or remaining "uncontrolled" despite this therapy. The poor treatment effect of severe asthma has been perplexing clinicians, which reduces the quality of life (QoL) of patients with asthma, and increases the mortality of such patients, so improving the therapeutic effect of severe asthma is an urgent problem to be solved in the clinic. Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a new non-drug therapy for severe asthma that is difficult to control with medications. It has been approved for clinical practice in China and the United States. The article aims at providing a new treatment option for patients with severe asthma that is poorly controlled by medications, thus improving the QoL in these patients.Methods: An extensive literature search was performed in the PubMed database, with "bronchial thermoplasty" as the key term. The full texts of all potentially relevant articles were obtained, and relevant information was extracted.

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Section: Adverse Reactions and Complicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%