(1) Valvular stenoses of the bronchi and especially of the bronchioles in various types of primary pulmonary disease are of considerable importance etiologically.
(2) It was also found that bunitrolol in the dosages tested is a much more potent beta-blocking drug in the bronchi compared to practolol in the dosages tested were equivalent.
(3) It is suggested that lung ventilation takes place in the avian embryo in three distinct stages: the major air-ways become aerated, then respiratory movements begin and lastly the tertiary bronchi are slowly aerated.
(4) The blood flow contributions and drainage patterns of the pulmonary and systemic circulations in the upper airways (trachea and main bronchi) were assessed in anesthetized dogs by injecting 15-micron radiolabeled microspheres into the right and left heart, respectively.
(5) The bronchi were involved more often than the trachea and the foreign body was located more frequently at the right bronchus (38 pt).
(6) 7 cases with bronchiectasis of left lower lobe and lingular segment were treated with left lower lobectomy and extirpation of the bronchi of lingular segment.
(7) Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the trachea was performed in twenty-one children with congenital or acquired narrowing of the trachea or main bronchi.
(8) These findings indicate structural abnormalities in the secretory apparatus of neuroendocrine cells in dysplastic bronchi and correlate with experimental observations of aberrant hormonal production associated with bronchial dysplasia.
(9) In the genesis of small airways obstruction (SAO) we have to consider two alterations with different prognoses: the first, in which the obstruction depends on a reduction of the diameters of the small bronchi (i.e.
(10) In two of the cases in which almost the whole lungs were studied on continuous slice images with thin slice high resolution CT, sub-sub-subsegmental bronchi could be easily delineated, except in for the lingular segment.
(11) These histologic changes were not observed in the recipient bronchi during acute rejection, nor were they seen in the donor and the recipient bronchi during lung infection without rejection.
(12) At 1 week after infection, mycoplasma cells were found in large numbers in the bronchi at the surface of bronchial epithelial cells and, in smaller numbers, in the alveoli where active phagocytosis by polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) occurred.
(13) Histidine decarboxylase activity was not found in cells of nonpathogenic neisseria, obtained from bronchi of patients with infectious asthma.
(14) The present results indicate that the systemic (bronchial) circulation is the primary source of tracheal blood flow and that both the pulmonary and systemic circulations may contribute approximately 50% of the blood flow to the main bronchi in dog lungs.
(15) The three agonists provoked significant (p less than 0.05) bronchoconstriction at the level of the main bronchi when identical falls of FEV1 were achieved.
(16) In guinea pigs sensitized with 1 microgram ovalbumin together with 100 mg Al(OH)3, somatostatin levels were selectively increased up to two and 3 times in tissue extracts from trachea and bronchi, respectively, but not in lung as compared to controls.
(17) Diseased controls showed a high PD centrally which fell (became less negative) peripherally (trachea -15.8 mV (SEM 1.0), lobar bronchi -12.6 mV (1.2), segmental bronchi -9.8 mV (1.2].
(18) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
(19) A 50% decrease was found in the ability of carcinogen-altered bronchi to act as a substrate for lipid peroxidation mediated by Adriamycin and an approximately 30% decrease for lipid peroxidation induced by t-butyl-hydroperoxide.
(20) Peak uptake values were found 5 min after Adriamycin administration, and the amounts of Adriamycin in normal and carcinogen-altered bronchi were found to be similar.
Broncho
Definition:
(n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-two patients with radiologically localised pulmonary tuberculosis underwent one or more broncho-alveolar lavages: 10 patients had a single lavage in the disease area, 11 had two lavages (1 in a healthy zone and 1 in the affected zone) and 1 patient had a triple lavage.
(2) When tested in the guinea pig, 2a exhibited no effects on blood pressure and no broncho-constriction or dilation activity.
(3) 93% of the preterm infants treated with Indomethacin survived, but only 56% of the ligation-group, the main cause of death was the broncho-pulmonary dysplasia.
(4) Due to severe broncho-pulmonary dysplasia, surgical reconstruction was impossible.
(5) It was observed that steroid therapy reduced dramatically the correlation between the broncho-alveolar lavage findings and the 67Ga scan measurements.
(6) Findings in specimens from the lower respiratory tract were reviewed in order to assess the role of Branhamella catarrhalis in broncho-pulmonary infections.
(7) In three patients, broncho-atrial discordance was diagnosed clinically by bronchial tomography and selective atrial angiography, and in the other one the diagnosis was made by anatomical study.
(8) A moderate correlation between the inhalation broncho-provocative tests and the skin allergic tests and a significant correlation between the inhalation broncho-provocative tests and the specific antibodies level were found.
(9) Other afflictions, such as broncho-pulmonary cancer, are beginning to cause problems.
(10) Broncho-alveolar lavage is thus able to induce long-term improvement in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.
(11) After transgressing of the pathological process to the state of fibrosis the vessels were showing a striped course presenting a greater number of broncho-pulmonary anastomoses.
(12) They found that there were associated conditions which worsened the prognosis, namely: stenosis of the genital tracts and broncho-pulmonary infections.
(13) This brief historical data of a patient dying of severe hematemesis as a result of broncho-esophago-aortal fistula in primary pulmonary cavitating carcinoma is presented.
(14) The favourable outcome over the next 7 years was associated as regards respiratory function, with a progressive improvement in lung volumes and pulmonary output and of CO diffusion capacity, as regards broncho-alveolar lavage there was a regular increase in the cellularity and finally as regards CT scanning (at high resolution) there was a progressive clearing of the alveolar opacities only leaving the persistent opacities in the interstitium.
(15) In the particular case of a broncho-pulmonary cancer, if it is anaplastic, mediastinoscopy is useful to determine diagnosis and contra-indications ; in other bronchial cancers, there are contra-indications in the case of bilateral invasion and blocking of mediastinal organs.
(16) Because of inspiration into the tracheo-bronchial aireays, regurgitation from purely oesophageal diseases can provoke various respiratory affections: acute broncho-pulmonary blocking broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary suppuration, night cough, fits of nocturnal suffocation, chronic bronchitis sometimes hemoptic.
(17) Hyperdiscrinism intensity determines in many respects the clinical manifestations of the broncho-obstructive syndrome, measurement data on viscosity and adhesion of bronchial secretion can be used for assessing the efficacy of the action on bronchial obstruction at the level of small bronchi.
(18) The changes in FEV1 and in specific conductance induced by 200 micrograms oxitropium bromide given as pressurized aerosol were measured at 8 time intervals during 7 hours after inhalation in a group of 19 patients with reversible broncho-obstruction.
(19) Considering the small number of patients in each group, and the clear tendency towards a diminution of the IgE level, it may be concluded that the administration of Broncho-Vaxom to atopic patients does not lead to an increased IgE level but, on the contrary, seems rather to favour a decrease.
(20) Histological and immunohistochemical studies of 57 bioptic specimens of the mucosa of the main bronchi taken during an attack of bronchial asthma, and those of the lungs of 27 patients who had died on the attack, showed that in the course of the attack of bronchial asthma serous-desquamous allergic inflammation, which proceeded according to the type of hypersensitivity, of the immediate type, developed along the full length of the broncho-vascular barrier.