• A number of studies were identified that showed short-term beneficial outcomes or the potential for such outcomes in cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and post-transplant obliterative bronchiolitis. (ersjournals.com)
  • What is less clear is the evidence for a role of macrolides in the treatment of other chronic inflammatory airway diseases, e.g. cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, asthma, obliterative bronchiolitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic rhinosinusitis. (ersjournals.com)
  • The exaggerated immune response to repeated inhalation of these particles leads to infiltration and proliferation of activated pulmonary macrophages and lymphocytes, resulting in lymphocytic alveolitis and bronchiolitis with noncaseating granulomas. (cdc.gov)
  • Bronchiolitis in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (pneumon.org)
  • These cases have been characterized by a variety of clinical syndromes including pulmonary edema, interstitial pneumonitis, obliterative bronchitis, and pulmonary hemorrhage (1-6). (cdc.gov)
  • Other types of respiratory diseases potentially impacted by workplace exposures include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (or COPD), hypersensitivity pneumonitis, silicosis, lung cancer, and bronchiolitis obliterans. (cdc.gov)
  • 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. (cdc.gov)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans results in worsening shortness of breath, wheezing, and a dry cough. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tiene múltiples indicaciones, entre las más frecuentes están la enfermedad obstructiva de la vía aérea producida por bronquiolitis obliterante, asma, síndrome de Swyer-James, traqueomalacia, neumonitis por hipersensibilidad o sarcoidosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Also known as Bronchiolitis, Obliterans, this recently discovered disease causes unpleasant symptoms such as wheezing, respiratory problems and coughing. (vapecould.com)
  • Airway damage resulting in bronchiolitis obliterans occurs frequently in patients after heart-lung and lung transplantation. (rug.nl)
  • The findings suggest that viral infections and chronic rejection play a synergistic role in the development of bronchiolitis obliterans after human heart-lung and lung transplantation: the virus infection may stimulate chronic rejection and rejection may hamper the local defense against the virus. (rug.nl)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans after human lung transplantation. (pneumon.org)
  • Chronic lung allograft dysfunction, the major cause of death following lung transplantation, usually manifests as irreversible airflow obstruction associated with obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), a lesion characterized by chronic inflammation, lymphoid neogenesis, fibroproliferation and small airway obliteration. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Santill n-Doherty P. Transplante unilateral de plum n en un caso de fibrosis pulmonar Terminal. (medigraphic.com)
  • Background: Asthma and obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) cases have occurred among styrene-exposed workers. (cdc.gov)
  • obliterative b., b. obliterans fibrinous b. in which the exudate becomes organized, obliterating the affected portion of the bronchial tubes with consequent permanent collapse of affected portions of the lung . (en-academic.com)
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans, aka Popcorn Workers Lung, is an obstructive lung disease in which the bronchioles of the lungs are blocked by the growth of fibrous tissue. (yourlawyer.com)
  • Histologically, subacute HP is characterized by the presence of cellular bronchiolitis, noncaseating granulomas, and bronchiolocentric lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis. (ajronline.org)
  • D. M. Hansell, M. B. Rubens, S. P. Padley and A. U. Wells, "Obliterative Bronchiolitis: Individual CT Signs of Small Airways Disease and Functional Correlation," Radiology, Vol. 203, No. 3, 1997, pp. 721-726. (scirp.org)
  • HRCT of obliterative bronchiolitis and other small airways disease. (pneumon.org)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans-Popcorn Workers Lung-is a rare, devastating, life-threatening disease that destroys the small airways of the lungs. (yourlawyer.com)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans can be caused by some types of bacterial or viral infection, certain diseases, injury sustained during a lung or bone marrow transplant, or by breathing in certain chemicals. (vapecould.com)
  • Bronchiolitis is a generic term applied to a variety of inflammatory diseases that affect the bronchioles, sparing a considerable portion of the other parenchymal structures, in which both inflammatory cells and mesenchymal tissue are present. (pneumon.org)
  • Both patients' illness was misdiagnosed before they received a diagnosis of work-related obliterative bronchiolitis, which had not been identified previously in the coffee-processing industry. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on this result, she received a diagnosis of obliterative bronchiolitis. (cdc.gov)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans affects up to 5.5% of people who have received HSCT. (wikipedia.org)
  • This article discusses the alloimmune-dependent and -independent risk factors for bronchiolitis obliterans, the current understanding of the pathogenesis of bronchiolitis obliterans based on results of animal and human studies, the clinical staging of the complication, strategies that may contribute to the prevention and/or early detection of bronchiolitis obliterans, and suggestions for future research. (ersjournals.com)
  • Bronchiolitis occurs in a variety of clinical settings and may be associated with large airway disease and parenchymal disease. (pneumon.org)
  • Currently many clinical trials are in progress aimed at the identification of the most appropriate treatment for each specific type of bronchiolitis. (pneumon.org)
  • If obliterative bronchiolitis is suspected, immediate protection from further exposure is crucial to prevent further deterioration of lung function. (cdc.gov)
  • However, chronic allograft dysfunction in the form of bronchiolitis obliterans remains a major hurdle that threatens both the quality of life and long-term survival of the recipients. (ersjournals.com)
  • Inhibition of spleen tyrosine kinase attenuates fibrous airway obliteration following allograft transplant in a mouse intrapulmonary transplant model of obliterative bronchiolitis. (elsevierpure.com)
  • On day 56 after infection, the bronchioles showed scarring in the submucosa and obliteration of the lumen, typical features of bronchiolitis obliterans. (rug.nl)
  • Obliterative bronchiolitis: varying presentations and clinicopathological correlation. (pneumon.org)
  • Bronchiolitis in association with connective tissue disorders. (pneumon.org)
  • This report describes two cases of obliterative bronchiolitis identified in workers employed in a small coffee-processing facility. (cdc.gov)
  • Hauptursache für die hohen Mortalitätsraten nach LTx ist die Ausbildung einer chronischen Abstoßung in Form eines Bronchiolitis obliterans Syndroms, dessen Intensität vor allem von dem Schweregrad und der Häufigkeit der vorausgegangenen akuten Abstoßung abhängig ist. (uni-regensburg.de)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans is rare in the general population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans is a common complication in lung transplants because transplanted lungs are at greater risk of alloimmunization as compared to healthy lungs. (wikipedia.org)
  • If left untreated, patients with adult bronchiolitis may progress to develop cough , wheezing , and dyspnea . (wikidoc.org)
  • Prior descriptions occurred as early as 1956, with the term "bronchiolitis obliterans" used first by Reynaud in 1835. (wikipedia.org)
  • In obliterative bronchiolitis, expiratory CT scan may be the only imaging technique that shows abnormalities in the early phase of disease. (bvsalud.org)