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...

A study was designed to investigate whether asthma, when carefully managed, is associated with an increased risk of complications in connection with pregnancy. One hundred and eighty one asthmatic women were monitored during 198 pregnancies. Antiasthmatic treatment consisted of inhaled beta 2 adrenergic drugs, beclomethasone, sodium cromoglycate, oral theophylline, and systemic corticosteroids ...

OBJECTIVE Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FENO) is a recently introduced non invasive marker to measure inflammation and oxidative stress in the lung. This study aimed to measure FENO in Saudi asthmatic adult patients who had mild to moderate persistent asthma, on inhaled short-acting? 2 agonists and compared them to healthy individuals matched for body composition without any evidence of obst...

In most experimental model of asthma using guinea pigs, the animals are made to inhale an aerosolized antigen which passes through the nasal cavity. In the present study, we attempted to create an animal model of asthma showing a biphasic asthmatic response and airway hyperresponsiveness, in which the allergic responses are restricted to the lung. Guinea pigs were sensitized by the intratrachea...

BACKGROUND Asthma is often poorly controlled and guidelines are often inadequately followed in medical practice. In particular, the prescription of non-asthma-specific drugs can affect the quality of care. The goal of this study was to measure the frequency of the prescription of antibiotics and anxiolytics/hypnotics to asthmatic patients and to look for associations between sex or age and the ...

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of vitamin D (VD) on inflammatory responses in asthmatic mice and the underlying mechanism, providing a theoretical basis for clinical application of targeted drug therapy, and the development of novel drugs against asthma. Mouse models of asthma were established. Hematoxylin‑eosin staining was performed to observe the pathological changes of t...

Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that renal deficiency is a causative factor of asthma, and tonifying kidney drugs are believed to be an appropriate and beneficial treatment. The adrenal medullary chromaffin cells (AMCC) transition to the neuronal phenotype is known to occur in asthma, as evidenced by degranulation of chromaffin granules, decline of epinephrine (EPI) and phenylethanolamine...

The chief complaint of asthmatic patient is dyspnea, but how this symptom occurs remains still considerably unknown.1)-5) Despite the ac cumulation of informations about pulmonary functions of asthmatic patients, many investigators1),4)6)7)8) have chiefly concerned the problems of lung volume, pulmonary gas distributions, ventilations and recently pulmonary circulations. Moreover, these investi...

Aim: There is a complex relationship between asthma and psychiatric problems; therefore, it important to investigate this for optimal treatment. In cross-sectional comparative study, was aimed examine the dependent personality trait, depression, anxiety stress levels of asthmatic non-asthmatic individuals.
 Material Method: 382 individuals with (n=172) without (n=210) were included in our ...

in this paper, the method of differentiating asthmatic and non-asthmatic patients using the  frequency analysis of  capnogram  signals is presented.  previously, manual study on capnogram signal has been conducted  by several researchers. all past researches showed significant correlation between capnogram signals and asthmatic patients. however all of them are just manual study conducted throu...