Despite the obvious and simple diagnosis, in practice we meet patients who do not respond to standard therapy. Why does drug resistance occur? The answer this question is unambiguous requires careful investigation each clinical case. Here present a case of patient with bronchial asthma, had no bad habits occupational hazards received adequate However, her condition worsened from attack attack. ...

BACKGROUND Mortality related to asthma has decreased worldwide since the introduction of inhaled corticosteroid therapy in the past decades. However, there are still some asthma fatalities identified mainly in populations with less access to regular treatment. Pulmonary interstitial emphysema due to alveolar rupture has been rarely described as a complication of an acute severe asthma attack, a...

Asthma is a condition that causing chronic health problems in children. In addition to basic therapy against disease, we must try to reduce the impact of chronic health problems and also optimize their medical aspect of growth and development. A boy with mild asthma attack frequent episode did not showed any improvement with medical treatment and his asthma control test was 11. From radiologic ...

Asthma is a condition that causing chronic health problems in children. In addition to basic therapy against disease, we must try to reduce the impact of chronic health problems and also optimize their medical aspect of growth and development. A boy with mild asthma attack frequent episode did not showed any improvement with medical treatment and his asthma control test was 11. From radiologic ...

The aim of this prospective study of a population of children (age, 2-15 years) hospitalized for severe asthma was to test them for acute infection due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae and acute infection due to Chlamydia pneumoniae. Of 119 patients with previously diagnosed asthma, acute M. pneumoniae infection was found in 24 (20%) and C. pneumoniae infection was found in 4 (3.4%) of the patients dur...

demonstrated by outcome studies of asthma selfmanagement. The objective of asthma self-management is to train patients to avoid asthma and reduce attacks (Bailey, Davies, & Kohler, 1998). A combination of education and behavior control procedures may be used to arrive at this goal. Among other things, patients are taught: to manage an asthma attack; to identify their asthma triggers and to avoi...

BACKGROUND FEV(1) is endorsed by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program as a means for grading asthma severity. However, few data exist on the relationship between FEV(1) and asthma outcomes during long-term follow-up. OBJECTIVE We explored the relationship between the percent predicted FEV(1) (FEV(1)%) and subsequent asthma attacks in a longitudinal study of pediatric lung heal...

S. F.. an Indian male, 37 years of age, a clerk in British Africa, consulted me on the 3rd January, 1934, on account of a mild attack of influenza. He had previously had an attack of asthma in 1918 which however had lasted only a few hours and was relieved by a brisk purge. In September 1933, he had an attack of acute bronchitis, during which he suffered from a transient bout of asthma. Later o...

In California, 2.8 million children and adults (900,000 children and 1.9 million adults) suffer from active asthma. One out of six of these Californians (16%) lives below the poverty level. Low-income adults and children with active asthma disproportionately bear the burden of asthma. They experience more frequent symptoms, go to the emergency department (ED) more often for asthma care, miss mo...

Material/Methods: Twenty-five children aged 5 to 13 years participated in the study: 19 with asthma analyzed both during an attack (acute asthma group) and after controlling the condition (controlled asthma group), and 6 without asthma (control group). Peak flow, spirometric variables and C-reactive protein were analyzed. Heart rate variability (HRV) was evaluated at rest for 10 min in the supi...