Background: Endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS)-guided transbronchial needle aspiration allows for sampling of mediastinal lymph nodes. The external diameter, rigidity, and angulation of the convex probe EBUS renders limited accessibility. This study compares the accessibility and transbronchial needle aspiration capability of the prototype thin convex probe EBUS against the convex probe EBUS in human ex vivo lungs rejected for transplant.
Methods: The prototype thin convex probe EBUS (BF-Y0055; Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) with a thinner tip (5.9 mm), greater upward angle (170 degrees), and decreased forward oblique direction of view (20 degrees) was compared with the current convex probe EBUS (6.9-mm tip, 120 degrees, and 35 degrees, respectively). Accessibility and transbronchial needle aspiration capability was assessed in ex vivo human lungs declined for lung transplant. The distance of maximum reach and sustainable endoscopic limit were measured. Transbronchial needle aspiration capability was assessed using the prototype 25G aspiration needle in segmental lymph nodes.
Results: In all evaluated lungs (n = 5), the thin convex probe EBUS demonstrated greater reach and a higher success rate, averaging 22.1 mm greater maximum reach and 10.3 mm further endoscopic visibility range than convex probe EBUS, and could assess selectively almost all segmental bronchi (98% right, 91% left), demonstrating nearly twice the accessibility as the convex probe EBUS (48% right, 47% left). The prototype successfully enabled cytologic assessment of subsegmental lymph nodes with adequate quality using the dedicated 25G aspiration needle.
Conclusions: Thin convex probe EBUS has greater accessibility to peripheral airways in human lungs and is capable of sampling segmental lymph nodes using the aspiration needle. That will allow for more precise assessment of N1 nodes and, possibly, intrapulmonary lesions normally inaccessible to the conventional convex probe EBUS.
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