Occupational asthma among hairdressers has been recognised for some years and cases of work related asthma due to hair bleaches containing persulphates and hair dyes have been reported. The extent of the disease among hairdressers remains unknown. An investigation was carried out on an entire hairdressing salon, which specialised in hair bleaching and colouring and which employed 23 staff. On t...

bronchial leiomyoma is extremely rare. to date less than 60 cases have been reported in the world literature. the presented case here is a 30 year old woman who had been treated for bronchial asthma for several years. her chest radiograph showed bulluos emphysematous changes in the right lung and computer tomography scan found the tumor in the right main bronchus near carina. diagnosis was made...

The purpose of the study — to identify and evaluate clinical significance “hidden” disorders blood oxygenation in smokers with exacerbation bronchial asthma. Materials methods: spirometry, pulse oximetry, CO-metry exhaled air. To diagnose oxygenation, including violations spectral characteristics level hemoglobin oxygen saturation, 19 male (middle age 54,6±2,05 years) mixed (68 %) or allergic (...

Bronchial thermoplasty is a non-drug procedure for severe persistent asthma that delivers thermal energy to the airway wall in a precisely controlled manner to reduce excessive airway smooth muscle. Reducing airway smooth muscle decreases the ability of the airways to constrict, thereby reducing the frequency of asthma attacks. Bronchial thermoplasty is delivered by the Alair System and is perf...

Background Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1) are associated with bronchial severity and pulmonary function. CHI3L1 proteins are involved in both innate and adaptive immune responses; however, to date, the correlation of these SNPs and their age of onset of bronchial asthma has not been demonstrated. Methods To address the role of these genetic variations, 3...

To evaluate the use of eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in monitoring disease activity in childhood asthma, serum ECP in 175 asthmatic children was assessed. Forty five patients with cystic fibrosis, 23 with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), and 87 healthy children were used as controls. Serum ECP concentrations (34.3 micrograms/l v 9.8 micrograms/l) were significantly higher in child...

Bronchial asthma is a heterogeneous disease with complex pathological mechanisms representing different phenotypes, including severe asthma. The airway epithelium major site of changes in due, part, to activation inflammatory and immune response noxious agents. Current imaging procedures are unable accurately measure epithelial remodeling. Damage cells occurs linked specific phenotypes endotype...

Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the bronchial mucosa. In asthma patients, the highest number of inflammatory cells, including eosinophils, are found in the small bronchi. According to the most recent 2006 report of the Global Initiative for Asthma, inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) remain the first-line treatment of chronic asthma. They are characterized by high lung de...

This clinical paper reports the investigations conducted on a traditional African anti-asthmatic formulations and evaluates its toxicological and phyto-chemical effects.

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about risk factors for the persistence of asthma and respiratory symptoms from childhood into adolescence, and few studies have included objective measurements to assess outcomes and exposure. METHODS From a large cross sectional study of all 4th grade school children in Munich (mean age 10.2 years), 234 children (5%) with active asthma were identified. O...