Pretreatment asthma control test score as a predictive score for clinical remission after bronchial thermoplasty in younger patients with severe asthma and preserved lung function
CONCLUSIONS: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to use clinical remission as a criterion for evaluating BT efficacy. The pre-BT ACT score might a the predict response to BT in younger adult patients with severe asthma and pre-BD %FEV1 ≥ 70%.PMID:38163925 | DOI:10.1080/02770903.2023.2297375
Source: Journal of Asthma - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Fumihiro Kashizaki Kenji Konishi Hao Chen Arihito Tanaka Atsushi Miyasaka Shunsuke Okazaki Chihiro Yamada Nanami Tsuchiya Kentaro Yumoto Harumi Koizumi Kenichi Takahashi Takeshi Kaneko Source Type: research