Using electrical impedance tomography to characterize lung impairment of children with primary ciliary dyskinesia: A pilot cross-sectional study.

Mariacarola PensabeneSimone GambazzaFederica CartaAlessia RocchiMara LeliiBarbara MadiniVittoria HassanPiotto MartaMaria Francesca Patria

Published in: Pediatric pulmonology (2022)

EIT appears promising as a noninvasive technique to characterize ventilation distribution in children with PCD, thus providing a complementary assessment to static and dynamic lung function measures of PCD disease.

Keyphrases

lung function
young adults
cystic fibrosis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
air pollution
clinical trial
randomized controlled trial
magnetic resonance
intensive care unit