Search for dissertations about: "airway obstruction"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 62 swedish dissertations containing the words airway obstruction.

  2. 21. Breating pattern by inductive plethysmography in relatidon to bronchial obstruction in asthma

    Author : Tomas Strömberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : This work aimed at improving a method for "non-invasive" ventilatory monitoring (the respiratory inductive plethysmography; RIP), and at assessing whether RIP can be used for detection and monitoring of bronchial obstruction in asthma.The RIP measures the changes in rib cage and abdominal cross-sectional areas during breathing. READ MORE

  4. 22. Clinical studies on the role of eicosanoids in the asthmatic airway inflammation

    Author : Kameran Daham; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The underlying mechanisms in the asthmatic airway inflammation involve the interaction between different cells and mediators that consequently result in different clinical phenotypes. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the impact of inflammatory mediators, with emphasis on eicosanoids, on the inflammatory and functional airway responses under basal and triggered conditions in subjects with asthma, in particular ASA/NSAID-intolerant and allergic phenotypes. READ MORE

  5. 23. Deposition and clearance of inhaled particles in patients with obstructive airway diseases

    Author : Katharina Svartengren; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : bronchial asthma; chronic bronchitis; immotile-cilia syndrome; tracheobronchial clearance; mucus; cough; particle deposition; laryngoscopy; lung function;

    Abstract : A large part of the population (at least 10%) suffers from asthma or chronic bronchitis. Knowledge of deposition and clearance of inhaled particles in the respiratory tract in this group of patients is essential for estimating environmental health hazards, as well as optimal effects of therapeutic aerosols. READ MORE

  6. 24. Neurotrophins and nitric oxide in relation to airway responses in experimental asthma in vivo

    Author : Lydia Bennedich Kahn; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Asthma is an inflammatory disease of allergic or non-allergic genesis characterized by intermittent reversible airway obstruction and variable degrees of persistent airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). Increase in AHR likely arises from augmented airway inflammation, such as associated with a late airway response. READ MORE

  7. 25. Airway smooth muscle as a target in asthma : new insights into bronchorelaxation and hyperreactivity

    Author : Martijn Manson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Patients with asthma suffer from reversible airway obstruction accompanied by airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). Airway smooth muscle (ASM) is central to bronchoconstriction and AHR and is therefore the target of existing and potential new therapies for asthma. READ MORE