ABSTRACT

An up-to-the-minute reference guide for health professionals confronting pulmonary disorders in children, Pediatric Asthma offers the latest findings on this classification-defying disease and related conditions. Written by more than 20 international experts in the field, the book focuses on drug administration-issues of compliance, aerosol deliver

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Epidemiology of Childhood Asthma

of a universally accepted definition of asthma that can be used to study

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of Harare, but of several recent studies performed after the fall of the of atopic dis-

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of allergen exposure is indeed a risk factor for the development of atopic sensi- of house dust mites and grass of mite and grass sensitization of asthma in similar ways remains to be determined. In a prospective, longitudi- of exposure in infancy and no difference in mean exposures between of current asthma was apparent of dust of one of the main allergens of exposure to mites in early in-

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of an exchange of glutamic acid for glutamine in of asthmatic patients of a replacement of arginine with glycine in amino acid 16 was

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of asthma medication (OR= 2.1 and OR= 4.7, respectively). of the enrolled subjects.

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of asthma medication (208), and in the level of BHR ( 192) of so2 and partic- of asthma and allergies. In areas of

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U, Hortsman DH. Kehrl HR, HarderS, Abdui-Salaam S, Ives PJ. Res-

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The Natural History of Asthma

I. Introduction

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of BHR is associated with a of asthma in

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Pathophysiology

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The Role of Allergy

of bronchial asthma is increasing

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of positive double-blind food chal- of children with a history of food-induced asthma was wheezing re-

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Pulmonary Function Testing

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Patient Education in Pediatric Asthma

I. Introduction of asthma include an appreciation for the

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Psychology of Pediatric Asthma

I. Introduction

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of the complex interplay between disease and the variables that of pediatric asthma. Creer of the multidirectional influ-

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of multidi- of design and analysis to capture the complex array of vari- of the child's

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of 57 physiological and psychological variables (42). The asthma-death risk of conflict between parents of asthma symp-

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The Management of Acute Severe Asthma

I. Introduction of the International Consen- of knowledge as well as established the goals of therapy for both

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It is becoming increasingly clear that environmental exposures are the most im-

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of theophylline and

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Intensive Care Unit Management

I. Intravenous and Inhaled Agonists of choice for acute severe asthma. Studies

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P2 Agonists

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Glucocorticoids

of asthma for many years and are

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Theophylline

I. Introduction

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Aerosol Delivery

of aerosolized drugs for asthma has the advantages of being site-