2024年5月30日 · Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents a spectrum of obstructive airway diseases. It includes two key components which are chronic bronchitis - small airways disease and emphysema .

2024年6月27日 · COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is defined as a condition characterized by persistent airflow limitation that is usually progressive and associated with an enhanced chronic inflammatory response in the airways and the lung to noxious particles or gases 1.

This review examines comorbidity assessment in the context of the wide availability of chest CT imaging in the era of lung cancer screening and discusses how findings on clinical chest CT imaging beyond the lung parenchyma may be incorporated into the approach to comorbidity screening and management in patients with COPD.

2024年11月1日 · Breath holding during static CT scanning can potentially alter intrathoracic pressure, thereby affecting the airway shape. Dynamic ventilation CT, also known as four-dimensional chest CT or dynamic pulmonary CT, enables direct evaluations of airway and lung movements during tidal and forced breathing [123]. However, dynamic ventilation CT is ...

CT scans are used to track lung cancer risk and known pulmonary nodules, and also interstitial diseases like pulmonary fibrosis. If the diagnosis given as a reason for ordering the CT scan was COPD, maybe that is why insurance turned it down.

Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) can be used to quantify morphological features and investigate structure/function relationship in COPD. This approach allows a phenotypical definition of COPD patients, and might improve our understanding of disease pathogenesis and suggest new therapeutical options.

Computed tomography has become the standard modality used for objective visualization of disease. It can provide useful measures of emphysema, airway disease, and more recently pulmonary vascular disease for clinical correlation.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a progressive lung condition that encompasses chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Understanding what this disease looks like on imaging, particularly through CT scans, is crucial for diagnosis and management.

2023年6月5日 · This article reviews the role of imaging in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with a focus on common findings for the general radiologist. Imaging features reviewed include visual and quantitative computed tomography assessment, nuclear …

2017年9月28日 · CT imaging is a readily quantifiable tool that can provide in-vivo assessments of lung structure in conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The information extracted from these data has been used in many clinical, epidemiological, and genetic investigations for patient stratification and prognostication, and to ...