Children with preschool wheeze experience a significantly greater reduction in wheeze severity 4 hours after treatment with the oral corticosteroid prednisolone versus placebo.
The use of AI and ML to predict asthma exacerbations is rapidly evolving. The review authors provide a snapshot of the existing scientific evidence and propose potential avenues for future applications.
Researchers have defined clinical remission as a biologic treatment goal in patients with severe asthma and identified those patients most likely to achieve it.
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The association between the use of certain medications (including sulfonamides, hydralazine, and procainamide) and the occurrence of drug-induced lupus or hepatitis is well established. More recently, cases of immune-related adverse events ranging …
This systematic review aims to identify the association between prenatal exposure to air pollutants and allergic diseases in children, focusing on specific pollutants, timing of exposure, and associated diseases. We searched PubMed, Scopus, and …
Hypersensitivity reactions to fungi have been implicated in a wide range of human disease, with exposures occurring indoors and outdoors [ 1 ]. Allergenic extracts are available for a minority of fungi implicated in human disease. For those fungi …
Open AccessECMOREVIEW: EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT (ECLS) IN ACUTE SEVERE ASTHMA
Status asthmaticus/acute severe asthma (ASA) is characterized by severe expiratory air flow limitation leading to hypercapnic and hypoxic respiratory failure and carries a mortality rate as high as 7% despite mechanical ventilation [ 1 ].
Asthma prevalence has seen a staggering rise with disease burden reaching epidemic proportions in the western world [ 1 , 2 ]. 3–10% of asthmatics have severe asthma where symptoms remain poorly controlled despite optimal treatment with inhaled …
Asthma during pregnancy is associated with a range of adverse perinatal outcomes. It is also linked to increased rates of neurodevelopmental conditions in the offspring. We aimed to assess whether fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO)-based …
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a clinical syndrome resulting from a complex, cumulative and dynamic gene-environment interaction over lifetime [ 1 ]. The disease cannot be cured, and only a limited symptom control can be achieved [ …2
Asthma treatment guidelines and the Global Initiative for Asthma strategy document classify inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) regimens via low-, medium-, and high-dose categories [ 1 , 2 ], often with reference to the now discontinued beclomethasone …
