Sentence examples for mucus plugging of from inspiring English sources

Excessive mucus plugging of the airway together with high incidences of bacterial infection leads to bronchial wall inflammation that progresses to secondary bronchiectasis.

Increased mucus production and mucus plugging of the airways is a recognized feature of COPD and has been shown to be further increased by RV infection [ 27].

Sudden changes in the geographic distribution of acoustic information in the context of deteriorating gas exchange or respiratory distress may suggest inadvertent mainstem bronchus intubation, pneumothorax, or mucus plugging of a major airway.

Asphyxia may be due to upper airway occlusion caused by angioedema, or bronchospasm with mucus plugging of the lower airways; the latter most commonly occurs in patients taking daily treatment for asthma.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease which defects in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene product result in abnormally viscous secretions, mucus plugging of the airways, intense inflammation, chronic airway infection, and early death due to progressive bronchiectatic lung disease [ 1].

Most scoring systems, however, consider bronchiectasis alone, or in combination with mucus plugging, to be the most important component of the score.

In contrast to previous series that found HAM to be more prevalent in unilobar mucus plugging,[18] most of our patients had multilobar hyperdense mucus plugging.

Owing to its sectional imaging, tomosynthesis shows structures in more detail that cannot be sufficiently evaluated with radiography, such as a superior assessment of mucus plugging and bronchiectases, which according to some authors [16] are the most specific changes of CF lung disease.

b, c On the tomosynthesis sections, bronchial wall thickening, cylindrical bronchiectases (white arrows), large mucus plugs (black arrows), an area of mucus plugging in a tree-in-bud pattern (circles), and mucus plugs in a bronchus (arrowheads) are clearly depicted.

The highest weighting is given bronchiectasis and mucus plugging, with 32% each of the maximum score (Table 7).

Focal patchy consolidation, bronchial mucus plugging and a cluster of plant (vegetable) cells with alveolar and interstitial infiltration by neutrophils and lymphocytes were seen in both lungs.