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ArticleScientific reports2017

Lung Clearance Index and Quantitative Computed Tomography of Post-Infectious Bronchiolitis Obliterans in Infants.

Yoon Hee Kim, Hyun Joo Shin, In Suk Sol, Soo Yeon Kim, Jong Deok Kim, Haesung Yoon, Kyung Won Kim, Myung-Joon Kim, Mi-Jung Lee, Myung Hyun Sohn

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yoon Hee KimDepartment of Pediatrics, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Hyun Joo ShinDepartment of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
In Suk SolDepartment of Pediatrics, Institute of Allergy, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Soo Yeon KimDepartment of Pediatrics, Institute of Allergy, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Jong Deok KimDepartment of Pediatrics, Institute of Allergy, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Haesung YoonDepartment of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Kyung Won KimDepartment of Pediatrics, Institute of Allergy, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Myung-Joon KimDepartment of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Mi-Jung LeeDepartment of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. mjl1213@yuhs.ac.
Myung Hyun SohnDepartment of Pediatrics, Institute of Allergy, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. mhsohn@yuhs.ac.ORCID 0000-0002-2478-487X
Yonsei University · KRSeverance Hospital · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) could be diagnosed via spirometry and chest computed tomography (CT); however, these tests are limited in infants. We aimed to evaluate the utility of lung clearance index (LCI) and air-trapping lung volume from chest CT in infants. This prospective study included 20 infants (mean age, 10.9 ± 6.3 months) diagnosed with post-infectious BO between 2009 and 2016. All subjects underwent multiple breath washout tests. For quantitative analysis of chest CT, the mean lung area attenuation value was used as an individual cutoff to determine the air-trapping lung volume. The mean cutoff lung attenuation value was -659 Hounsfield units, the mean total lung volume was 265 ml, and the mean air-trapping lung volume percentage was 22.9%. Functional residual capacity correlated with total lung volume and normal attenuation lung volume (p < 0.02). LCI (p < 0.02) and moment ratio (MR) 1 (p < 0.05) correlated with the air-trapping lung volume percentage. The concordance indices of LCI (0.659, p = 0.025) and MR1 (0.642, p = 0.046) were significantly correlated with the air-trapping lung volume percentage from CT. LCI and quantitative air-trapping lung volume from chest CT are feasible, complimentary tools for assessing infants with post-infectious BO.

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Tomography, X-Ray ComputedBronchiolitis ObliteransFunctional Residual CapacityHumansInfantLungLung Volume MeasurementsProspective Studies

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