Watremez, Christine
[UCL]
(eng)
To briefly guide the reader along this thesis on the contribution of helium ventilation in bronchospastic diseases, we provide a short outline in five steps as following:
- First, we will review briefly the basis of asthma disease and COPD.
- Second, we will describe some respiratory measurements we have at one’s disposal to evaluate the level of the disease and the extent of therapy effect.
- Third, we will make a recall of measurement of the ventilation-perfusion relationships by the Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique.
- Fourth, we will explain what is helium and how it will be theoretically interesting to use it in the clinical setting.
- Finally, we will expose our works whose begin with the development of an animal model of bronchospasm, continue with the application of helium ventilation in this model, and reach completion with helium ventilation of COPD patients.
Bibliographic reference |
Watremez, Christine. Helium ventilation in obstructive respiratory diseases : evaluation of ventilation/perfusion relationships with the MIGET : from the animal model to the clinical application. Prom. : De Kock, Marc ; Liistro, Giuseppe |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/33353 |