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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Saarah T. Alkhairy, M.D.
Overview
The symptoms of bronchiectasis were discovered in the early 19th century. In 1950, using bronchography, bronchiectasis was discovered as a pathology.
Bronchiectasis Historical Perspective
- In the early 19th century, Rene Theophile Hyacinthe, a French physician, was the first to report suppurative phlegm.
- In 1922, Jean Athanase Sicard introduced contrast bronchography, and in 1950, Lynne Reid linked the findings in bronchography to the pathology of bronchiectasis.
- The majority of studies that described bronchiectasis were published between 1930 and 1960 (the time when scientists gained access to large quantities of operative and postmortem lung specimens).[1]
- To date, neither studies that address the early stages of bronchiectasis nor animal models of bronchiectasis is present.[1]