ß-Agonist Aerosol Distribution in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis in Infants
Israel Amirav, MD;1,
Ivgenia Balanov, MD;2,
Miguel Gorenberg, MD;3,
Anthony S. Luder, MD;2,4,
Michael T. Newhouse, MD;5 and
David Groshar, MD4,6
1 Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Rebecca Sieff Governmental Hospital, Safed, Israel
2 Department of Pediatrics, Rebecca Sieff Governmental Hospital, Safed, Israel
3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rebecca Sieff Governmental Hospital, Safed, Israel
4 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
5 Barnett Medical Aerosol Research Laboratory, St. Joseph Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
6 Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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FIGURE 1. (A) Anterior image of lungs of patient with bronchiolitis. S = stomach. (B) Diagram of peripheral and central regions of lung used to determine regional aerosol distribution (modified from Phipps et al. (20)).
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