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Chest physiotherapy, nebulised DNase and possibly fibreoptic bronchoscopy might be helpful in patients with mucous plugging of the airways.

Reducing the viscosity of the secretions makes them easier to clear, and DNase may thus reduce mucous plugging of airways and hence improve atelectasis.

For atelectasis not due to mucous plugging of the airways, increased end-expiratory pressure has been used and resulted in complete resolution of lobar atelectasis in four patients [ 5] and re-expansion of atelectasis in experimental studies [ 12].

DNase is more likely to improve atelectasis due to mucous plugging of the airways, and some of these patients would have had other mechanisms of atelectasis such as passive and adhesive-induced atelectasis.

For the mucous plugging score (0 6) the extent of mucous plugging in the central lung (0 3) was added to the extent of mucous plugging in the peripheral lung (0 3).

These concerns were based on reports of obstructing granulomas, mucous plugging, stent fracture, migration, and infection.

In this group the severity of bronchus dilatation, mucous plugging, centrilobular abnormalities, airway wall thickening, consolidation, ground glass and air trapping improved significantly more when compared with the BOS patients who did not improve.

Although conventional flushing will help avoid mucous plugging, it does not address the suctioning of gastric mucosa back into the NGT orifices, which may creates a one-way valve, such that fluid may pass into the stomach during conventional flushing, but not out of the stomach when suction is applied.

CT demonstrates bronchial wall thickening, a mosaic attenuation pattern of the pulmonary parenchyma, and mucous plugging (Fig. 6a and b) [17].

High attenuation mucous plugging is described as the most characteristic finding of ABPA.[22], [46], [47] The finding is attributed either to the presence of calcium salts, iron and manganese,[48] or desiccated mucus.[49] The association of HAM with poorer outcomes in ABPA remains unclear, but one obvious reason is that the higher attenuation points to a more inspissated type of mucus.

Severe airflow limitation is always associated with severe asthma exacerbation and occurs as a result of broncho-constriction, airway oedema and/or mucous plugging.