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Tomophase Corp. (Burlington, MA) says it will display the first in-vivo cross-sectional images of implanted pulmonary stents using its proprietary optical coherence tomography (OCT) system at next week’s meeting of the American College of CHEST Physicians (Philadelphia, PA, October 27-29). The images were captured using the Tomophase OCT System as part of an ongoing [...]

Two groups of researchers, one in the United States and one in Australia, are announcing the development of new optical techniques for visualizing the invisible processes at work in several human diseases. The published results are the first to showcase the Optical Society’s (OSA) Interactive Science Publishing (ISP) initiative, which allows authors to submit a [...]

Multi-detector Computed Tomography is highly accurate for detecting airway stent complications, study suggest.
The results of the study were published in American Journal of Roentgenology. The study was conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston to compare the detection rate of central airway stent complications using MDCT with bronchoscopy.
The study [...]

Two groups of researchers, one in the United States and one in Australia, are announcing the development of new optical techniques for visualizing the invisible processes at work in several human diseases. The published results are the first to showcase the Optical Society’s (OSA) Interactive Science Publishing (ISP) initiative, which allows authors to submit a [...]

BALTIMORE, MD, Oct 27, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Franklin Square Hospital Center announces the start of the EASE (Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial to explore an investigational treatment for advanced widespread emphysema/COPD. The trial focuses on airway bypass, a bronchoscopic procedure designed to reduce lung hyperinflation and shortness of breath (the [...]

Multidetector CT (MDCT) scans are highly accurate in detecting airway stent complications, according to a recent study performed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
MDCT correctly identified 29 (97 percent) of 30 complications in 21 patients, including all cases of intraluminal narrowing, migration, invasion by neoplasm and tracheal perforation; MDCT [...]

Multidetector CT (MDCT) scans are highly accurate in detecting airway stent complications, according to a recent study performed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
MDCT correctly identified 29 (97 percent) of 30 complications in 21 patients, including all cases of intraluminal narrowing, migration, invasion by neoplasm and tracheal perforation; [...]

Multi-detector Computed Tomography is highly accurate for detecting airway stent complications, study suggest.
The results of the study were published in American Journal of Roentgenology. The study was conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston to compare the detection rate of central airway stent complications using MDCT with bronchoscopy.
The study [...]

Researchers at National Jewish Health are testing an investigational treatment to learn if poking holes in the lungs of emphysema patients can immediately help them breathe more easily. Destruction of lung tissue caused by emphysema can leave lungs stiff and overinflated with air that cannot escape. The holes, kept open by small stents inserted during [...]

Patients in the Valley with emphysema might soon be breathing a little easier thanks to a new airway bypass study called the Exhale Airways Stents for Emphysema (EASE) trial. The trial principal is Dr. Karl Van Gundy aided by investigators Drs. Michael Peterson, Jose Joseph, Timothy Evans and Kathryn Bilello — all pulmonologists at UCSF [...]