Pivotal Data on Bronchial Thermoplasty from the Asthma Intervention Research 2 (AIR2) Trial to be Presented at ATS 2009

New non-drug procedure for severe asthma featured in eight presentations at annual conference in San Diego SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Asthmatx released today the schedule of presentations featuring its novel Alair(R) Bronchial Thermoplasty System at ATS 2009, the Internation...

1-year results of bronchial thermoplasty in refractory asthma

Sunnyvale, CA, February 11, 2008 Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure under investigation for the treatment of asthma, announced today the publication of data from the Research in Severe Asthma (RISA) Trial of bronchial thermoplasty in the America...

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 Am...

Interventional Pulmonology Creeping into Bronchoscopy Market

...bmitted for FDA premarket approval in 2008. Its approval will add bronchial thermoplasty to the list of treatments that can be performed with flexible bronchoscopy....nal of Medicine in March 2007 found that patients who underwent a bronchial thermoplasty used less rescue medication such as that found in inhalers and showed impro...

Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?

... Encouraging results for the use of bronchial thermoplasty procedure were reported by the Research in Severe ... Severe asthma patients who underwent bronchial thermoplasty showed significant improvements in asthma control,...and evaluated the safety and efficacy of bronchial thermoplasty in 32 adult subjects with severe persistent asthma...

thermoplasty in Medical Technology

Pivotal Data Show Bronchial Thermoplasty Can Improve Quality of Life and Reduce Asthma Attacks and Emergency Room Visits for Adults with Severe Asthma

Non-drug Procedure for Asthma Highlighted at ATS 2009 SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of the Asthma Intervention Research 2 (AIR2) Trial of the Alair(R) Bronchial Thermoplasty System, developed by Asthmatx, Inc., were announced today at ATS 2009, the International Conferenc...

thermoplasty in Biological News

Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

...asthma control at one year following the bronchial thermoplasty procedure. The publication entitled, "Asthma ...Cox. "These results make us hopeful that bronchial thermoplasty may be a new option for asthma patients who have a...ite use of current drug therapies." Bronchial thermoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that reduces the...