Angelina L P Pieters, Tjeerd van der Veer, Jennifer J Meerburg, Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou, Menno M Vd Eerden, Pierluigi Ciet, Stefano Aliberti, Pierre-Regis Burgel, Megan L Crichton, Amelia Shoemark, Pieter C Goeminne, Michal Shteinberg, Michael R Loebinger, Charles S Haworth, Francesco Blasi, Harm Awm Tiddens, Daan Caudri, James D Chalmers
RATIONALE: Chest computed tomography -scans (CTs) are essential to diagnose and monitor bronchiectasis (BE). To date, little quantitative data is available about the nature and extent of structural lung abnormalities (SLA) on CTs of BE patients. OBJECTIVES: to investigate SLA on CTs of patients with bronchiectasis and the relationship of SLAs to clinical features using the European Bronchiectasis Registry (EMBARC) Methods: CTs from BE patients included in the EMBARC registry were analyzed using the validated Bronchiectasis Scoring Technique for CT (BEST-CT)...
April 18, 2024: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine