bronchiolitis

Obliterative bronchiolitis has 2 forms, polypoid and constrictive, which can be present in isolation or can exist together in the same lung or even in the same airway.

Wilkes, "The role of autoimmunity in obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation," American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, vol.

Although inhaled steroids and mucus clearance therapy improved her cough, her dyspnea continued to worsen; an open lung biopsy was performed, which revealed constrictive bronchiolitis (the histopathologic correlate of obliterative bronchiolitis) with both narrowed and obliterated airways with surrounding fibrous tissue and a variable mixed chronic inflammatory cell infiltrate.

Lung rejection in lung or heart-lung transplant patients takes the form of obliterative bronchiolitis and, in fact, obliterative bronchiolitis is the major complication in survivors of heart-lung transplantation.

Abbey Lowdon, six, has chronic obliterative bronchiolitis, which when severe restricts her breathing and, for more than a year as a toddler, left her in need of 24-hour oxygen treatment.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, examined the issue because diacetyl has been implicated in causing obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) in humans.

The next five chapters discuss small airways disorders in adults, including asthma, infectious and noninfectious small airways disorders, obliterative bronchiolitis, and smoking-related airway diseases.

Scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, conducted the study because diacetyl has been implicated in causing obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) in humans.

Success was also measured in terms of whether patients developed histologically proven obliterative bronchiolitis or bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, both of which flag chronic rejection.