Osteitis in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a predictive factor of disease severity and an important potential reason for disease recalcitrance. Other than medical treatment, transnasal endo...
Postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans (PIBO) is an uncommon and severe form of chronic obstructive lung disease in children. Adenovirus (ADV) is the main pathogen of PIBO in children. Howe...
India contributes to 32% of the total global disability-adjusted life years, due to chronic respiratory diseases. This has led to a high rate of health loss from these diseases. Antibiotics ...
A combination of ipratropium bromide (IB) and salbutamol is commonly used to treat asthma in children and adolescents; however, there has been a lack of consistency in its usage in clinical ...
Hyperpolarized gas with helium (HHe-3) MR (magnetic resonance) is a noninvasive imaging method which maps and quantifies regions of ventilation heterogeneity (VH) in the lung. VH is an impor...
Allergic asthma is a common chronic inflammatory disease characterized by airway inflammation, mucus hypersecretion and airway remodeling. Autophagy is a highly conserved intracellular degra...
Early life environment can affect asthma and allergies but few cohort studies on this issue are available from China. Our aim was to investigate reported onset of childhood wheeze, rhinitis ...
The hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) is characterized by somatic/ psychological symptoms due to sustained hypocapnia and respiratory alkalosis without any organic disease.The purpose of this ...
Despite reports that asthma is the leading cause of school absenteeism and the third leading cause of hospitalization in children under 15 years, little is known about how school nurses are...
Clinical practice guidelines of dietary management are designed to promote a balanced diet and maintain health in patients undergoing haemodialysis but they may not reflect patients' prefere...
Pet allergies are common in children with asthma. Microbiota and host responses may mediate allergen sensitization.To uncover host-microbe relationships in pet allergen sensitization via joi...
Pollens are an important source of allergens that trigger rhinitis or asthma. The allergenic extracts of pollens used to diagnose and treat allergies contain different allergenic antigens. I...
Goal orientated healthcare accounts for patient preferences and values, not just physician treatment aims. The GINA management strategy states clinicians should elicit patient's own treatmen...
Omalizumab is a bio-targeted agent approved as add-on therapy for the treatment of severe asthma. Most patients with severe asthma show no response to omalizumab. American Thoracic Society (...
Toluene diisocyanate (TDI) exhibits an ability to induce steroid insensitive asthma with the involvement of Th17 cells. And emerging evidence has indicated that DLL4 signaling promotes Th17 ...
Weather and air pollution are associated with the exacerbation of respiratory diseases. We investigated patterns of medical care use according to meteorological factors and air pollution in ...
Exposure to humidifier disinfectants (HDs) can increase the risk of asthma but the characteristics of HD-related asthma are currently unclear. Polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride (PHMG...
All the plants and their secondary metabolites used in the present study were obtained from Ayurveda, with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The selected secondary metabolites hav...
Technology based interventions (TBIs) can improve asthma management by facilitating patient education, symptom monitoring, environmental trigger control, comorbid condition management, and m...
CD48 is a surface receptor (mCD48) expressed on most hematopoietic cells, as well as in a soluble form (sCD48). It seems to play a major role in asthma through the interactions of mast cells...
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