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[Asthma or asthma-like condition?]
O Löwhagen1, S Ellbjär, N Jörgensen
1Allergicentrum, Sahlgrenska sjukhuset, Göteborg.
Nordisk Medicin
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Asthma is currently seen as an inflammatory disease of the airways. The clinical characteristics are any of a variety of airway symptoms occurring in conjunction with bronchial obstruction (which is reversible on treatment with beta 2-agonists or steroids) and bronchial hyper-responsiveness. The symptoms can be triggered by a variety of factors and the clinical picture is not uniform. The most common differential diagnoses are chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) and asthma-like conditions unaccompanied by bronchial obstruction.