Bronchial thermoplasty – a promising treatment for asthmatic
According to Canadian researchers, asthma patients’ quality of life can be drastically improved by removing the muscle tissue (by heating it) in the hyperactive airways. This// reduces the intensity of the problem. The investigators announced this during CHEST 2006, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians.The Asthma Intervention Research trial was conducted on 1...Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?
Encouraging results for the use of bronchial thermoplasty procedure were reported by the Research in Severe Asthma (RISA) Trial , at the annual scientific assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) by Neil Thomson,MD, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland. This announcement came from Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-...