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Severe acute asthma

Seminars in Perinatology, 2013
Asthma is common among women of reproductive age and affects between 4% and 8% of pregnant women. Pregnancy outcomes are correlated to the degree of asthma severity and control. Approximately one-third of pregnant women with asthma remain stable, a third will have improvement of their asthma, and a third will have worsening of the disease.
Diana Alex, Racusin   +2 more
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Adherence in severe asthma

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2012
SummaryAdherence in asthma is an important cause for concern. Although nearly 50% of asthma patients are considered poorly adherent to therapeutic advices, adherence is still difficult to assess, understand and improve despite major medical consequences.
A, Bourdin   +8 more
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Treatment of Severe Asthma

New England Journal of Medicine, 1974
BRONCHIAL asthma, though highly treatable, causes over four thousand deaths annually in the United States. Measures currently available are so effective that control should rarely fail unless the patient delays too long in seeking help or if treatment is not vigorous enough. Functionally, the cardinal feature is airway obstruction, which may be so mild
William Franklin, W Franklin
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A child with severe asthma

The Lancet, 1998
peribronchial tissues. Eosinophilic myocarditis is a rare feature observed in various clinical situations; it can be isolated and idiopathic, or induced by drugs (such as antibiotics and carbamazepine). By contrast, the association of eosinophilic myocarditis with severe bronchial asthma, an eosinophil count of more than 10%, and history of severe food
RABUSIN M   +3 more
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Workup of Severe Asthma

Chest, 2021
A 56-year-old man has difficult-to-control asthma and a history of four exacerbations in the prior 12 months despite high-dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and additional controller therapies. Is he suitable for more advanced therapeutic options? To address this query, we herein review the clinical assessment of a patient with suspected severe asthma ...
Couillard, Simon   +3 more
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Rhinosinusitis in severe asthma

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2001
Chronic rhinosinusitis is a common comorbidity of asthma. However, sinonasal involvement in severe steroid-dependent asthma is still undefined.The aim of the study was to evaluate chronic rhinosinusitis in 35 patients with severe steroid-dependent asthma by using a clinical score and coronal computed tomography (CT) scanning.Thirty-five subjects (16 ...
M, Bresciani   +7 more
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Severe/Fatal Asthma

Chest, 2003
Severe asthma is poorly understood clinically, physiologically, and pathologically. While milder forms of asthma are generally easily treated, more severe forms often remain refractory to the best current medical care. Although some patients with severe asthma have had severe disease for most of their lives, there appears to be a second group that ...
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Acute Severe Asthma

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2003
Abstract Acute severe asthma remains a major economic and health burden. The natural history of acute decompensations is one of resolution and only about 0.4% of patients succumb overall. Mortality in medical intensive care units is higher but is less than 3% of hospital admissions.
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Severe Exacerbations of Asthma

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 2004
All asthmatics regardless of their perceived severity, are at risk of exacerbation, particularly if they are suboptimally treated in the outpatient arena. Fortunately most patients recover after administration of bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory medications, but preventable deaths continue to occur and refractory cases result in hospitalization ...
Susan J, Corbridge, Thomas C, Corbridge
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Categorizing Asthma Severity

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1999
Abstract The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Expert Panel II recommended a stepped care pharmacotherapy approach to asthma treatment based on an objective assessment of asthma severity using daytime symptoms, nocturnal symptoms, and physiologic lung function.
G L, Colice   +4 more
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