“We hope that this new type of scan will allow us to see changes in the transplanted lungs earlier and before signs of damage are seen in normal blowing tests. This will help any treatment to start earlier and help the transplanted lungs recover more quickly.” This will help prevent further damage,” said Andrew Fisher, professor of respiratory transplant medicine at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University, UK. The study published in Radiology and JHLT Open In, the team described how they used a special gas called perfluoropropane, which can be seen on an MRI scanner.
Patients can safely inhale and exhale the gas, and then have a scan to see where the gas has reached the lungs. “Our scans show where the gas has reached the lungs,” said Professor Pete Thelwall, project lead at Newcastle University. Where in patients with the disease ventilation is not working properly, and we learn which parts of the lungs have improved with treatment.” The new scanning technique allows the team to measure when patients receive treatment. is given So how much ventilation is improved, in this case widely used inhalers, bronchodilators, salbutamol. This suggests that imaging methods could be valuable in clinical trials of new treatments for lung disease. The researchers said this scanning method could be used in the future in the clinical management of lung transplant recipients and other lung diseases. There is a possibility of doing.
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