Difficult Asthma /
Most patients with asthma are easily diagnosed and treated with the use of an inhaler or medication. Approximately five per cent of people that suffer from asthma have difficult or refractory asthma, whereby they experience persistent problems that are not controlled by standard treatment methods. P...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Spanish English |
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India :
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
2013
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| Edición: | First Edition |
| Colección: | Clinical Focus Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Definition, Epidemiology, and Phenotypes of Severe Asthma Sally E Wenzel 2. Economic Burden of Difficult Asthma 14 Ciaran O'Neill, Claire Telford 3. Clinical Assessment of Difficult Asthma 24 Annemarie Sykes, Andrew Menzies-Gow 4. Adherence in Difficult Asthma 40 Rob Horne, Liam G Heaney 5. Psychological Morbidity in Difficult-to-treat Asthma 56 Adel H Mansur, Alison Pooler 6. Difficult Asthma in Children 73 Surendran Thavagnanam, Michael D Shields 7. Difficult Asthma—The Patient’s Perspective 92 Jennifer M Versnel, Liam G Heaney 8. Comorbidity in Refractory Asthma 102 Robert Niven 9. Molecular and Immunological Basis for Severe Therapy-resistant Asthma 120 Ian M Adcock, Kian F Chung 10. Monitoring and Natural History of Refractory Asthma 145 Christopher Brightling 11. Novel Treatment Strategies in Refractory Asthma 163 Neil C Thomson, Rekha Cha