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Bronchial Thermoplasty: A Novel Therapeutic Approach to Severe Asthma
Published on: November 4, 2010
[Bronchial asthma: characteristics of modern diagnostics]
Abstract:
Bronchial asthma, including its not severe forms, is chronic inflammatory disease of bronchial tubes, requiring application of anti-inflammatory therapy, foremost the use corticosteroids, which are capable to improve considerably prognosis for such patients. At the same to diagnose bronchial asthma is not easy task and presents some difficulty. The questions of correct diagnostics and treatment of this disease, its aspirin-sensitive form, and also such associated with bronchial asthma illnesses as bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome are discussed in the article. The role of gastrooesophageal reflux in forming of bronchial constriction is shown.
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