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New procedure helps patients with severe asthma breathe easier
Medical Xpress Nearly 24 million people in this country suffer from asthma. For most of them, avoiding allergens and taking medications help keep their asthma under control. But for a small group with severe persistent asthma, frequent hospital visits tend to be the … |
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New Procedure Helps Patients with Severe Asthma Breathe Easier
eNews Park Forest CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2012. Nearly 24 million people in this country suffer from asthma. For most of them, avoiding allergens and taking medications help keep their asthma under control. But for a small group with severe persistent asthma, … |
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New Procedure Helps Patients with Severe Asthma Breathe Easier
Sacramento Bee CHICAGO, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Nearly 24 million people in this country suffer from asthma. For most of them, avoiding allergens and taking medications help keep their asthma under control. But for a small group with severe … |
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Bronchial Thermoplasty Awarded Category I CPT® Procedure Codes
Sacramento Bee "These codes should provide greater access to treatment for patients with poorly controlled severe asthma, help facilitate easier claims processing, and help accelerate private payers' coverage of this much-needed treatment option." The Alair … |
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New Procedure Helps Asthma Victims Breathe Easy
CBS Local MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – For decades, the only way to treat asthma has been with drugs. And even those, sometimes, aren't enough to treat severe asthma. A new break-through procedure is providing hope as a Twin Cities hospital was one of only a few … |
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New procedure helps asthma patients
WFMZ Allentown It's helping patients with severe asthma and a local hospital is one of only a few in the state offering the treatments. Doctors at Lehigh Valley Health Network have only been offering the life-changing procedure for a few months. "We have probably 15 … |
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New procedure makes breathing easier for asthmatics
phillyBurbs.com It's called bronchial thermoplasty. Trained pulmonologists are using the procedure to reduce the amount of smooth muscle that lines the bronchial tubes of patients with severe asthma, thereby opening the airways more. They use a catheter in a … |
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UMC first hospital in Lubbock to offer asthma procedure
LubbockOnline.com David Vasquez was used to not being able to breathe.He was used to waking up in the middle of the night, having to take breathing treatments.He was used to always having to use his inhaler after laborious activities.He was used to visiting the … |
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Treatment for severe asthma now given in Tulsa; first patient finishes procedure
Tulsa World By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer A procedure to treat severe asthma in adults is now being performed in Tulsa and the first patient in the area finished treatment Thursday. The procedure, called bronchial thermoplasty, heats and reduces extra … |
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New procedure helping asthma patients breathe easier
WRAL.com Durham, NC — Most people take breathing for granted, but for people with asthma, wheezing, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath are all scary symptoms that can result in trips to the hospital. In some cases, medicines stop working for … New procedure offers hope to asthma patients No drugs needed for new asthma treatment Good Samaritan Hospital, the first and only Dayton hospital, to offer … |
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