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Incorrect use of inhalation devices among patients with bronchial asthma. A hospital-based cross-sectional study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

São Paulo Medical Journal, 2018
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Treatment of asthma implies inhalation of specific drugs to reach high concentrations in the respiratory tree and ensure low drug bioavailability and few adverse effects.
Carlos Leonardo Carvalho Pessôa, Maria Julia da Silva Mattos, Artur Renato Moura Alho, Marianna Martini Fischmann, Ana Carolina Castro Côrtes, Flávio de Oliveira Mendes, Bruno Mendes Haerdy, Sandra Mara Silva Brignol   +7 more
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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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The Inhalation Characteristics of Patients When They Use Different Dry Powder Inhalers [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The characteristics of each inhalation maneuver when patients use dry powder inhalers (DPIs) are important, because they control the quality of the emitted dose.
Alaboud A, Chrystyn H, Dinesh Saralaya, Harold S.R. Hosker, Henry Chrystyn, John Stephenson, Pedersen S, Philip Chetcuti, Wahida Azouz   +8 more
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Intratracheal Administration of siRNA Dry Powder Targeting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Inhibits Lung Tumor Growth in Mice

Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids, 2018
Inhalation therapy using small-interfering RNA (siRNA) is a potentially effective therapeutic strategy for lung cancer because of its high gene-silencing effects and sequence specificity.
Kei Miwata, Hirokazu Okamoto, Taku Nakashima, Daisuke Ihara, Yasushi Horimasu, Takeshi Masuda, Shintaro Miyamoto, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kazunori Fujitaka, Hironobu Hamada, Ayumi Shibata, Takaaki Ito, Tomoyuki Okuda, Noboru Hattori   +13 more
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Patient considerations in the treatment of COPD: focus on the new combination inhaler umeclidinium/vilanterol. [PDF]

, 2015
Medication adherence among patients with chronic diseases, such as COPD, may be suboptimal, and many factors contribute to this poor adherence. One major factor is the frequency of medication dosing.
Albertson, Timothy E, Harper, Richart, Murin, Susan, Sandrock, Christian   +3 more
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Combination fluticasone and salmeterol versus fixed dose combination budesonide and formoterol for chronic asthma in adults and children [PDF]

, 2008
BackgroundCombination therapies are frequently recommended as maintenance therapy for people with asthma, whose disease is not adequately controlled with inhaled steroids.
Aalbers, Aalbers, Aalbers, Aalbers, Adachi, Adams, Adams, Alonso, Ambrose, Becker, Bleecker, Bleecker, Bleecker, Bleecker, Bousquet, Bousquet, Bousquet, Brambilla, Buhl, Cates, Cates, Cazzola, Chuchalin, Creemers, D'Urzo, Dahl, Dahl, Dahl, Edwards, Fitzgerald, FitzGerald, Gibson, Greenstone, Hampel, Hampel Jr, Higgins, Higgins, Jenkins, Jenkins, Johansson, Kaik, Kuna, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lundback, Lötvall, Martin, Miller, Molimard, Ni Chroinin, Noord, O'Connor, Palmqvist, Palmqvist, Price, Price, Price, Ringdal, Ringdal, Suissa, Vogelmeier, Walters, Welte, Williams   +64 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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Inhalation technique assessment and evaluation for the need of pharmaceutical intervention in respiratory pathologies patients [PDF]

Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2019
Objective: To evaluate rate and type of errors in inhalation technique of patients seen in hospitals at the observation area in the emergency department, as well as patients seen in the outpatients clinic at the primary care pharmaceutical consultation,
Paloma Castellano-Copa, Jaime Gulín-Dávila, Yveth Michelle Tajes-González   +2 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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Dispersion and Characterization of Pharmaceutical Dry Powder Aerosols

KONA Powder and Particle Journal, 2014
Dry powder inhalers may be employed for the delivery of drugs to the lungs for the treatment of pulmonary and systemic diseases. Dry powder inhalers consist of a formulation, metering system and delivery device.
Craig A. Dunber, Anthony J. Hickey, Peter Holzner   +2 more
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