Open AccessBronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma: A position statement of the Indian chest society
Author(s) -
Karan Madan,
Saurabh Mittal,
Tejas M Suri,
Avinash Jain,
Anant Mohan,
Vijay Hadda,
Punit Tiwari,
Randeep Guleria,
Deepak Talwar,
Sudhir Chaudhri,
Virendra Singh,
Rajesh Swarnakar,
Shreekant Bharti,
Rakesh Garg,
Nishkarsh Gupta,
Vikas Kumar,
Ritesh Agarwal,
Ashutosh N. Aggarwal,
Irfan Ismail Ayub,
Prashant N. Chhajed,
Amit Dhamija,
Raja Dhar,
Sahajal Dhooria,
Hari Kishan Gonuguntla,
Rajiv Goyal,
Parvaiz A Koul,
Rajiv Kumar,
Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu,
Ravindra Mehta,
Ujjwal Parakh,
Vallandaramam Pattabhiraman,
Raghupathi Narasimhan,
Inderpaul Singh Sehgal,
Arjun Srinivasan,
Kavitha Venkatnarayan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_418_19
Subject(s) - bronchial thermoplasty , medicine , asthma , chest radiograph , medline , watchful waiting , position statement , intensive care medicine , radiology , radiography , family medicine , political science , bronchoconstriction , law , prostate cancer , cancer
Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is an interventional bronchoscopic treatment for severe asthma. There is a need to define patient selection criteria to guide clinicians in offering the appropriate treatment options to patients with severe asthma.