Bronchiectasis has symptoms like chronic coughing, wheezing, coughing up blood, and shortness of breath. ... A chest CT scan can show the extent and location of lung damage.

When researchers analyzed the group of patients who only met the CT criteria for suspected bronchiectasis, they found that those with normal spirometry (n = 731) showed a lower difference in 10 ...

Patients with asthma-chronic rhinosinusitis and overlapping bronchiectasis had higher incidence rates of nasal polyps (P = .004), higher Lund-Mackay scores (P = .044), higher proportion of one or ...

Bronchiectasis is independently associated with an increased mortality risk in patients with moderate-to-severe ... which was diagnosed by high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest.