Intermittent to Mild Asthma: The Need for Continued Treatment

Intermittent to Mild Asthma: The Need for Continued Treatment

© Copyright The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology • The Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease http://e-aair.org Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of an airway characterized by recurrent attacks of airflow obstruction that is at least partially reversible. This definition of implies that asthma can be completely reversible. Therefore, most pat...

Severe asthma treatment: need for characterising patients.

CONTEXT Asthma is readily diagnosed in most cases and usually responds to inhaled corticosteroids with or without long-acting beta agonists, theophyllines, or leukotriene-receptor antagonists, adjusted stepwise according to symptoms and lung function. However, up to 40% of adult patients with asthma remain symptomatic, and up to 5% have difficult-to-control asthma despite multiple therapies. It...

Airway inflammation in mild intermittent and in persistent asthma.

The severity of asthma can be graded from mild intermittent to severe persistent. Airway inflammation is a feature of persistent asthma. We compared several markers of inflammation in mucosal biopsies and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL fluid) from 12 healthy control subjects, 24 patients with intermittent asthma, and 18 patients with mild-to-moderate persistent asthma. Epithelial shedding, e...

Methotrexate and the need for continued research.

With the current national commitment to cancer research, new and challenging areas of investigation are being planned. Hopefully, this inevitably expanding search into the nature and treatment of malignant tumors will include a continued examination of current chemotherapeutic agents. These standard tumoricidal drugs have proved to be effective in the therapy of numerous cancers despite an inco...

Pharmacotherapy--treatment of intermittent asthma with ICSs.