Children with severe asthma have substantial structural airway changes on computed tomography.

Wytse Bastiaan van den BoschQianting LvEleni-Rosalina AndrinopoulouMariëlle W H PijnenburgPierluigi CietHettie M JanssensHarm A W M Tiddens

Published in: ERJ open research (2024)

Despite a large discrepancy between the automated and the manual semi-quantitative analysis, bronchiectasis and bronchial wall thickening are present on most CT scans of children with SA. SAD is related to bronchial wall thickening.

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positron emission tomography
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magnetic resonance imaging
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