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Therapeutic interventions in severe asthma
The present paper addresses severe asthma which is limited to 5-10% of the overall population of asthmatics. However, it accounts for 50% or more of socials costs of the disease, as it is responsible for hospitalizations and Emergency Department accesses as well as expensive treatments. The recent identification of different endotypes of asthma, based on the inflammatory pattern, has led to the...
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Introduction Acute severe asthma is one of the most common causes of visits to hospital emergency departments worldwide and accounts for the greater part of the economic and healthcare burden of the disease.1 Failure to appreciate the severity, inadequate emergency treatment, and delay in referral may lead to increased mortality and morbidity.2 Asthma is the most common respiratory emergency in...
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Myopathy of insidious onset produced by corticosteroids is well recognised. In recent years acute myopathy has been reported in patients with acute severe asthma treated with 3-4 g of intravenous hydrocortisone a day.1 2 It has been argued that to minimise the risks of this the dose should be no more than 1 g of hydrocortisone a day.2 There is evidence that 1 g/day is an effective regimen.3 We ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Pharmacotherapy
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1060-0280,1542-6270
DOI: 10.1345/1542-6270(2002)036<1287:saaato>2.0.co;2