Journal of Practical Medicine  2003;442(2):83-84

Endoscopic and histopathological characteristics of bronchial asthma out of the outbreak crisis

Dong Khac Hung

Keywords

Bronchial asthma

Country

Viet Nam

Language

Vietnamese

Abstract

From June 2001 to June 2002, in the Hospital 103, 31 patients aged 16-75 were studied. In 100% of them, brochial endoscopy found the contraction of bronchi under direct mechanical stimuli of the end edge of the endoscopy. This mild contraction flashed and self terminated. Out of the outbreak crisis, in 100% of bronchial biopsy samples, inflammation image appeared, and the bronchial structure changed. The main histopathological exhibitions were the infiltration of essinophile white blood, enlarging of bronchi and of the smooth muscle, the hypertrophy of bronchial epithelia and fibrosis under bronchial epithelia