Effectiveness of bronchial thermoplasty for severe persistent bronchial asthma accompanied by Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

ABSTRACT: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a type of bronchoscopic treatment specifically used for patients with severe asthma. Most severe asthmatics receive systemic steroids and are at risk of being immunocompromised. This raises the clinical question of whether or not BT can be effectively and safely performed in such patients. Herein, we report a case highlighting the effectiveness and safety of BT in a patient with severe persistent bronchial asthma and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. We performed BT on a 46-year-old woman undergoing treatment for severe persistent asthma with inhaled steroids and 20 mg prednisolone orally. Although she was deemed to be infection-free before the procedure, culture of endobronchial secretions obtained during the first BT procedure grew Pseudomo

SUBMITTER: Ishii S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9213246 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature