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Bronchial Thermoplasty

"Bronchial Thermoplasty" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Thermal destruction of the excess bronchial SMOOTH MUSCLE tissue with heat delivered through a catheter assembly attached to a BRONCHOSCOPE. It is often used to control BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY in severe ASTHMA for better AIRWAY MANAGEMENT.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bronchial Thermoplasty" by people in this website by year, and whether "Bronchial Thermoplasty" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 5 publications over 3 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2018 and 2021
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