Vibration Response Imaging in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma

Completed

Conditions studied: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma

In brief

Obstructive lung disease is usually a differential diagnostic consideration when a patient presents with breathlessness or cough. Spirometry is the key diagnostic test used to confirm airflow obstruction particularly in the primary care setting. Airflow obstruction that completely resolves after administration of a bronchodilator, by definition, excludes a diagnosis of COPD. Evaluation of obstructive lung disease must include pulmonary function testing; bronchoreversibility testing is an adjunct in differentiating between asthma and COPD. Bronchoreversibility cannot serve as an absolute diagnostic criterion for separating asthma from COPD. Vibration response imaging (VRI) technology provides a simple, radiation-free method to image the lungs, by visualizing vibration energy (lung sounds) emitted during respiration cycle. In this study, regional quantitative and qualitative information on vibration response is compared with spirometry in assessing lungs function of COPD and Asthma patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00542282

Run by

Deep Breeze

People needed

75

Starts

2006-11-01

Expected to finish

2007-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-06-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Able and willing to read, understand, and provide written Informed Consent
• Male or Female in the age range of 18-85 years
• Patients referred for evaluation of known or suspected obstructive airways disease.
• Subject is referred for pulmonary function testing with pre-and post- bronchodilator
• BMI > 21
• Patients who are treated with Bronchodilators should go through a washout period prior the VRI procedure according to the Pulmonary Function Laboratory protocol.
• Stable clinical condition at study baseline evaluation.

You may not qualify if…

• Chest wall deformation
• Spine deformation (including severe scoliosis)
• Hirsutism
• Potentially contagious skin lesion on the back
• Skin lesion that would interfere with sensor placement
• Pregnant or lactating females.

Where it is running

• Baylor College of Medicine — Houston, Texas, United States

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