Is asthma limiting your life?

You may be candidate for Bronchial thermoplasty (BT).

Are you ready for a fuller life with fewer Asthma attacks?

Perhaps it’s time to look beyond medication alone.

It’s not a medication. It’s revolutionary relief for severe asthma.

Are you:

  • Taking multiple asthma medication but still having asthma attacks?
  • Adjusting your life style to avoid asthma triggers?
  • Missing work, school, or daily activities because of asthma?

If the answer is yes, you might be candidate for Bronchial Thermoplasty (BT) delivered by the Alair TM System. It’s a safe outpatient procedure that provides a long-lasting reduction in asthma attacks for people with severe asthma. Fewer asthma attacks means less need for the associated oral steroid treatment and its side effects.

BT is clinically proven to work

In clinical study, at 1 year, patients with severe asthma who were treated with BT experienced:

  • 32% decrease in severe asthma attacks
  • 84% reduction in asthma-related emergency room visits
  • 66% fewer days lost from work, school, and daily activities do to asthma

Additionally:

  • 79% of patients who were treated with BT reported a significant improvement in their asthma-related quality of life. Reductions in asthma attacks and emergency room visits were shown to extend through a 5-year follow-up period.

BT, delivered by the Alair System, is a safe outpatient procedure

  • As with any procedure, there are risks, and individual result may vary.
  • The most common side effect of BT is temporary worsening of respiratory-related symptoms. These events typically occur within one day of the BT procedure and usually resolved within a week with standard care.
  • There is a small risk (3.4% per procedure) that symptom may require hospitalization.

BT is indicated for the treatment of severe asthma in people 18 years and older whose asthma is not well controlled with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-agonists.

How BT is performed?

  • During the procedure a tiny, carefully controlled device delivers mild heat to the smooth muscle of the airways in your lungs.
  • No incision needed, because the procedure is performed with a bronchoscope inserted through the nose or mouth.
  • When your BT treatment is complete, you will return to your regular asthma-treating doctor to continue managing your asthma.

BT reduces asthma attacks by reducing airway smooth-muscle tissue

  • People who have asthma have more airway smooth-muscle tissue surrounding their airways than people who have no asthma.
  • During an asthma attack, this excess tissue constricts the airways, making it harder to breath.
  • Asthma medicines help open up the airways, but these medicines don’t always work well in people who have severe asthma.
  • BT is an add-on therapy that supplements your current asthma medications.

Treatment with BT actually reduces the amount of excess smooth-muscle tissue in the airways. With less of this tissue, the airways constrict less, reducing asthma attacks and making breathing easier.

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