Differentiation using minimally-invasive bioimpedance measurements of healthy and pathological lung tissue through bronchoscopy

Copyright © 2023 Company-Se, Nescolarde, Pajares, Torrego, Riu, Rosell and Bragós..

Purpose: To use minimally-invasive transcatheter electrical impedance spectroscopy measurements for tissue differentiation among healthy lung tissue and pathologic lung tissue from patients with different respiratory diseases (neoplasm, fibrosis, pneumonia and emphysema) to complement the diagnosis at real time during bronchoscopic procedures.

Methods: Multi-frequency bioimpedance measurements were performed in 102 patients. The two most discriminative frequencies for impedance modulus (|Z|), phase angle (PA), resistance (R) and reactance (Xc) were selected based on the maximum mean pair-wise Euclidean distances between paired groups. One-way ANOVA for parametric variables and Kruskal-Wallis for non-parametric data tests have been performed with post-hoc tests. Discriminant analysis has also been performed to find a linear combination of features to separate among tissue groups.

Results: We found statistically significant differences for all the parameters between: neoplasm and pneumonia (p < 0.05); neoplasm and healthy lung tissue (p < 0.001); neoplasm and emphysema (p < 0.001); fibrosis and healthy lung tissue (p ≤ 0.001) and pneumonia and healthy lung tissue (p < 0.01). For fibrosis and emphysema (p < 0.05) only in |Z|, R and Xc; and between pneumonia and emphysema (p < 0.05) only in |Z| and R. No statistically significant differences (p > 0.05) are found between neoplasm and fibrosis; fibrosis and pneumonia; and between healthy lung tissue and emphysema.

Conclusion: The application of minimally-invasive electrical impedance spectroscopy measurements in lung tissue have proven to be useful for tissue differentiation between those pathologies that leads increased tissue and inflammatory cells and those ones that contain more air and destruction of alveolar septa, which could help clinicians to improve diagnosis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in medicine - 10(2023) vom: 06., Seite 1108237

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Company-Se, Georgina [VerfasserIn]
Nescolarde, Lexa [VerfasserIn]
Pajares, Virginia [VerfasserIn]
Torrego, Alfons [VerfasserIn]
Riu, Pere J [VerfasserIn]
Rosell, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Bragós, Ramon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biopsy
Bronchoscopy
Journal Article
Lung tissue differentiation
Minimally-invasive bioimpedance
Respiratory disease

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Date Revised 30.04.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmed.2023.1108237

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356171833