important structures for conditioning luminal gas temperature and humidity. Functionally, nasal vasculature resemble bronchial vasculature in their response to environmental, physical, chemical, nervous and humoral stimuli. M i have extensively studied several factors which regulate nasal airflow resistance(Rnaw)and nasal blood flow(Qn)in man, including nasal or oral hyperventilation and physic...

BACKGROUND Although many patients who experience chest pain or pressure consult their physicians, unfortunately a large number of them do not, and consequently they remain undiagnosed and untreated. Chest pain, in a subset of these patients, may be relieved with a bronchodilator or other asthma drugs. METHODS This retrospective study included twenty cases of chest pain that were relieved with...

The outbreak of a new coronavirus infection was officially recognized by the World Health Organization as global pandemic since March 11, 2020. is currently gradually receding, number patients also steadily decreasing. However, these circumstances are not grounds to believe that virus has been definitively and irrevocably defeated. For this reason, world medical community still concerned about ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical significance of changes in the plasma adiponectin concentration in patients with bronchial asthma and to test the association between the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs2241766 and rs1501299 in the ADIPOQ gene and bronchial asthma in the Chinese Li population. We selected 120 cases and 120 controls, and plasma adiponectin, interl...

The prevalence of asthma was studied in a ice hockey team compared with both a floor ball team and the Swiss population. Lung function, bronchial hyperresponsiveness to methacholine, asthma symptoms and exercise-induced asthma were measured in a cross-sectional prospective study. A positive response to the methacholine bronchial provocation test was found in 34.6% of the ice hockey players and ...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of asthma is associated with both genetic and environmental factors. Allergen sensitization is an important risk factor in asthma development. AIM To evaluate sensitivity to allergens by using the skin prick test in patients with a diagnosis of bronchial asthma. METHOD Patients with a diagnosis of bronchial asthma followed-up at the Ministry of Health, Diskapi Ch...

unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis (upaa) is a rare congenital anomaly during the 4 th  week of gestational age. it is defined as an absence of pulmonary parenchyma and its supporting artery. a 9-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of chronic cough. chest examination showed a decrement in lung sound of right hemi-thorax with expiratory wheeze. chest radiography (cxr) revealed a...

АСТМА ТА АЛЕРГІЯ, No 1 • 2015 Bronchial asthma (BA) and recurrent bronchitis occupy the leading place among chronic and recurrent respiratory diseases in children age. Special importance of problem of these diseases gets in view of the provisions that recurrent respiratory diseases in children is the debut of chronic bronchopulmonary pathology of adult period of life [1, 16]. One of the importa...

Objective: To find the prevalence of asthma in the age group of 6 –13 years & to identify the risk factors increasing the prevalence of asthma in Urban and Rural area school children in Western Uttar Pradesh. Methods. This is a cross sectional community based study conducted by interviewing the parents of randomly selected 1287 children in the age group of 6-13 years using a modified Internatio...

Background In primary care settings difficult-to-treat asthma may be interpreted as severe asthma. Little is known about diagnostic outcomes in children referred to secondary paediatric referral centres with an established primary care doctor’s diagnosis of difficult-to-treat bronchial asthma. The objective of the present study was to assess diagnostic outcome in school age children referred to...