Understand symptoms, airway evaluation, and your next clinical conversation.
Aria - TBM Pathway helps visitors learn about tracheobronchomalacia and excessive dynamic airway collapse, organize non-identifying symptom information, and prepare for discussions with licensed healthcare professionals.
TBM & ECAC education
What is tracheobronchomalacia?
Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) involves weakness of the supporting airway wall and abnormal expiratory narrowing of the trachea, main bronchi, or both. Excessive dynamic airway collapse (EDAC) is a related but distinct pattern of expiratory central-airway narrowing.
Symptoms can include chronic cough, difficulty clearing secretions, recurrent respiratory infections, shortness of breath, noisy breathing, and exercise limitation. These symptoms overlap with many other conditions and require individualized clinical evaluation.
Symptoms are not specific
Asthma, COPD, reflux, upper-airway disorders, infection, cardiac disease, and other causes may produce similar symptoms or coexist with central-airway collapse.
Specialized assessment may be needed
Dynamic expiratory CT and dynamic bronchoscopy evaluate airway behavior differently from routine chest imaging, but clinicians decide when those tests are appropriate.
A better clinical conversation
Organizing symptom timing, triggers, prior diagnoses, treatment response, prior testing, and functional impact can help make an appointment more productive.
Four ways to use the pathway
Education without creating a patient record
No account, contact-information form, saved assessment history, transcript archive, progress tracker, or medical-record upload is used in the public experience.
Anonymous Symptom Checklist
Organize selected symptom and risk-factor responses without entering a name, date of birth, email, phone number, or medical-record number.
Start ChecklistAsk Aria
Use a focused educational conversation to organize non-identifying history and prepare questions for your healthcare team.
Talk With AriaEvaluation Pathway
Understand how clinicians may approach persistent respiratory symptoms and when specialized airway evaluation may be discussed.
View PathwayPhysician Conversation Guide
Prepare concise talking points and questions for a productive visit with a licensed healthcare professional.
Open GuidePrivacy and appropriate use
The checklist is calculated locally in current browser memory. Aria messages are transmitted to the AI service to generate a response but are not saved by this app as an account, patient record, or transcript archive. Do not enter identifying information, confidential medical records, imaging, or test reports. This tool provides education and visit preparation only—not diagnosis, medical advice, or emergency care.