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G Girardi-Briere

Publications and source records attributed to G Girardi-Briere.

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PubMed1990

[Ambulatory aerosol therapy in children with bronchial obstruction and hyperreactivity].

Some of the main objectives for the use of aerosol therapy in the treatment of bronchial obstruction are pointed out. This has all been possible due to the physical findings on the use of aerosols, their mode of action, the size and speed of the particles, the level of bronchial obstruction ventilation and the technique behind it all. The main advancements in the treatment of asthma are described according to the degree of severity. Special attention is given to the great impact caused by the management of childhood lung obstruction. Bronchial obstruction; aerosol therapy; bronchial hyperreactivity.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

[Bronchial hyperreactivity or broncho obstructive hyper response].

In this article bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) is defined and a series of factors which may be involved are discussed: genetic, neurovegetative imbalance, increase in the bronchial epithelial permeability, inflammation and mechanical factors which cause the shortening of the bronchial smooth muscle. A less rigid bronchial cartilage and a decrease in pulmonary elasticity, as well as a thickening of the bronchial wall due to a relative hypertrophy of the glandular tissue might just explain the occurrence of bronchial hyperreactivity in breast-feeding newborns, which actively wheeze and later outgrow the abnormality, and those cases of persistent BHR who repeatedly wheeze. This hyperbronchial response reappears with the aging of the lung tissue.

Adolescent↗