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Influence of Delivery Devices on Efficacy of Inhaled Fluticasone Propionate: A Comparative Study in Stable Asthma Patients [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Background: Inhaled corticosteroids are the preferred treatment for long-term control of all grades of persistent asthma. These are administered by various delivery devices with very little information whether these devices can affect the efficacy of
Bhanu Prakash Kolasani, Venu Madhavi Lanke, Sudheer Diyya   +2 more
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Comparative efficacy of Budesonide by different delivery devices in Bronchial Asthma

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2012
Aims& Objective: To assess the relative efficiency of budesonide administered from different delivery devices to adult patients of chronic stable bronchial asthma as measured by pulmonary function test parameters. Materials and Methods: This prospective
Dilshad Ali Rizvi, Mohammad Tariq Salman, Syed Esam Mahmood, Joydeep Sircar, Karim Ullah Ansari, Vinod Kumar Verma   +5 more
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Inhalable fucoidan microparticles combining two antitubercular drugs with potential application in pulmonary tuberculosis therapy [PDF]

, 2018
The pulmonary delivery of antitubercular drugs is a promising approach to treat lung tuberculosis. This strategy not only allows targeting the infected organ instantly, it can also reduce the systemic adverse effects of the antibiotics. In light of that,
Ana Grenha, Ana Rosa da Costa, Buttini, Francesca Buttini, Ludmylla Cunha, M Faleiro, Stefaniak-Vidarsson, Susana Rodrigues   +7 more
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The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of inhaler devices used in the routine management of chronic asthma in older children: a systematic review and economic evaluation [PDF]

, 2002
Background: This review examines the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hand-held inhalers to deliver medication for the routine management of chronic asthma in children aged between 5 and 15 years.
Beverley, C., Lim, J.N.W., Peters, J., Smith, S., Stevenson, M.   +4 more
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Regular treatment with formoterol and an inhaled corticosteroid versus regular treatment with salmeterol and an inhaled corticosteroid for chronic asthma: serious adverse events [PDF]

, 2010
Background An increase in serious adverse events with both regular formoterol and regular salmeterol in chronic asthma has been demonstrated in comparison with placebo in previous Cochrane reviews.
Aalbers, Aalbers, Altman, Barnes, Beach, Bleecker, Busse, Cates, Cates, Cates, Cates, Cates, Dahl, Ducharme, Ducharme, Ducharme, Giembycz, Higgins, Lasserson, Lipworth, Nelson, Ni Chroinin, Papi, Ringdal, Salpeter, Tamminen, Walters, Walters   +27 more
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Manifesto on small airway involvement and management in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an Interasma (Global Asthma Association - GAA) and World Allergy Organization (WAO) document endorsed by Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) and Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN) [PDF]

, 2016
Evidence that enables us to identify, assess, and access the small airways in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has led INTERASMA (Global Asthma Association) and WAO to take a position on the role of the small airways in these ...
A. Cruz, A. Fink-Wagner, A. Yanez, A. Yorgancioglu, ARIA, C. Baez Loyola, C. Nunes, D. Deleanu, D. Ryan, E. Hossny, F. Braido, F. Lavorini, F. Levi-Schaffer, for Interasma Executive Board, G. Passalacqua, G. Rodrigo, G. Walter Canonica, GA2LEN, H. Saito, I. J. Ansotegui, J. A. Ortega-Martell, J. Berstein, J. Bousquet, J. C. Ivancevich, J. Celedon, K. Dobashi, K. Ohta, L. Caraballo, L. Dubuske, L. J. Rosenwasser, L. P. Boulet, L. Zhang, M. Akdis, M. Ebisawa, M. Sanchez-Borges, M. Tang, M. Zernotti, N. Scichilone, O. S. Usmani, P. Greenberger, P. Vichyanond, R. Mosges, R. Pawankar, S. Benjaponpitak, S. Bonini, S. Fineman, S. N. Gonzalez-Diaz, S. Nakajima, T. Slavyanskaya, T. Zuberbier, W. Burks, Z. Awad El-Sayed   +51 more
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How to match the optimal currently available inhaler device to an individual child with asthma or recurrent wheeze [PDF]

, 2015
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in ...
Dekhuijzen, Richard, Gappa, Monika, Garcia-Marcos, Luis, Lenney, Warren, Pedersen, Søren, Price, David, van Aalderen, Wim M   +6 more
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Recent advances in capsule-based dry powder inhaler technology

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2017
Pulmonary drug delivery is currently the focus of accelerated research and development because of the potential to produce maximum therapeutic benefit to patients by directly targeting drug to the site of pathology in the lungs.
Federico Lavorini, Massimo Pistolesi, Omar S. Usmani   +2 more
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Inhaled steroids and risk of pneumonia for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are anti-inflammatory drugs that have proven benefits for people with worsening symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and repeated exacerbations.
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Potential of a cyclone prototype spacer to improve in vitro dry powder delivery [PDF]

, 2013
Copyright The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium ...
A Nair, A Voss, AJ Hickey, AR Clark, C Terzano, CG Thiel, D Ganderton, Darragh Murnane, DI Daniher, Digby D. Symons, EA Matida, F Lavorini, F Lavorini, H Bisgaard, H Bisgaard, H Bisgaard, H Chrystyn, Irene Parisini, JP Mitchell, K Demirkan, K Svartengren, L Borgstrom, L Borgström, LI Harrison, M Hindle, MEAC Broeders, ML Everard, N Islam, P Begat, PW Barry, R Buhl, R Pauwels, RAM Al-Showair, Sean J. Cheng, SP Newman, T Ehtezazi, T Srichana, T Srichana, WES Kamin, WH DeHaan, WY Tarsin, XM Zeng   +41 more
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