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Published on: August 25, 2020
[Current Asthma Treatment in Light of New Asthma Guidelines]
1Abteilung für Pneumologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Rostock.
Abstract:
The new international and german asthma guidelines recommend a 5-step treatment approach, to achieve asthma control and to minimize future risk. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are still the mainstay of treatment, which should be combined with long-acting bronchodilators in patients with more severe disease. Specific treatment options such as allergen-Immunotherapy (AIT) or biologics, which can be very efficacious in individual patients, are forerunners of a new era of precision medicine in asthma.
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