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Annual Reports of Misasa Medical Center, Okayama University volume68
1997-12 発行

気管支喘息におけるCTによる気腫性変化。喫煙症例と非喫煙症例の比較。

Tanizaki, Yoshiro
Mitsunobu, Fumihiro Kaken ID publons researchmap
Ashida, Kozo Kaken ID researchmap
Mifune, Takashi
Hosaki, Yasuhiro
Tsugeno, Hirofumi
Okamoto, Makoto
Iwagaki, Naofumi
Yamamoto, Kazuhiko
Nakai, Mutsuo
Akiyama, Tsuneo
Publication Date
1997-12
Abstract
The percentage of attenuation area < -950HU (% LAA) on high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) was compared between 17 smoking and 24 nonsmoking patients with asthma. 1. FEV1/FVC value was lower in smoking patients (56.4%) than in nonsmoking patients (66.0%), however, the difference was not significant. 2. The percentage of LAA of the lung was larger in smoking patients compared with that in nonsmoking patients in all the three anatomic levels: the % LAA was 14.4% in nonsmoking and 20.3% in smoking patients at lower lung level (3cm above the top of the diaphragm). However, this was not significant. The maximal % LAA among the three lung levels on HRCT was 21.6±12.5% in smoking, and 15.7±11.9% in nonsmoking patients. This suggested that the maximal % LAA was larger in smoking patients, however, this was not significant. 3. The mean CT number of the lung on HRCT was smaller in smoking patients (-897.3HU) than in nonsmoking patients (-884.7HU). 4. Three of 4 nonsmoking patients whose % LAA was more than 30% had severe intractable asthma with long-term glucocorticoid therapy. The results suggest the possibility that smoking influences the % LAA of the lung on HRCT in asthma. It could be also speculated that % LAA is influenced by severity of asthma.
Keywords
bronchial asthma
FEV1
% LAA
mean CT number
HRCT
ISSN
0918-7839
NCID
AN10430852
NAID