Asthma is a common disease among elderly persons. The prevalence of asthma in subjects aged over 65 years is 6.5-17%. The diagnosis of asthma is based on typical symptoms with confirmatory information gained from physical examination and laboratory studies. Respiratory symptoms are less specific in older people. Additionally the clinical manifestations of asthma is complicated by co-morbidities, polypragmasy, underreporting of symptoms, cognitive impairment. Moreover, elderly patients are sometimes unable to perform pulmonary function tests. Consequently, discriminating asthma from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is difficult in this group of patients. The difficulties in differential diagnosis of asthma in older adults entails that d...
Określenie drobne drogi oddechowe (DDO) dotyczy oskrzeli poniżej 7. generacji, o średnicy mniejszej ...
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Holistic approach to disease is strongly associated with assessment of patients’ quality of li...
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Wstęp: Astma jest najczęściej występującą chorobą przewlekłą wieku rozwojowego. Niedodiagnozowanie j...
Corticosteroids (CS) have been used for many years and proved to be the most effective treatment in ...
Introduction: At present, severe asthma is a particular clinical problem. An important role is attri...
Introduction: Lung diseases, especially COPD, are one of the leading causes of death. The aim of the...
The introduction of induced sputum, as the diagnostic and research tool allowed to define nonasthmat...
Określenie drobne drogi oddechowe (DDO) dotyczy oskrzeli poniżej 7. generacji, o średnicy mniejszej ...
Introduction. Bronchial asthma is a chronic, and the most common respiratory disease in children. Di...
Respiratory infections are one of the major causes of asthma exacerbations. Among numerous pathogens...
Chronic respiratory system diseases become serious public health problem all over the world. The mos...
Holistic approach to disease is strongly associated with assessment of patients’ quality of li...
Introduction: Asthma is a disease with a complex pathogenesis. Obesity seems to be crucial risk fact...
Omalizumab is the monoclonal antibody against IgE, which blocks the binding of IgE to receptors on e...
Introduction: Airway inflammation and remodeling are well recognized features of asthma. Remodeling ...
Therefore, the burden of providing treatment of respiratory infections falls, mainly,upon family phy...
Traditionally, allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma are described as distinct and separate entitie...
Wstęp: Astma jest najczęściej występującą chorobą przewlekłą wieku rozwojowego. Niedodiagnozowanie j...
Corticosteroids (CS) have been used for many years and proved to be the most effective treatment in ...
Introduction: At present, severe asthma is a particular clinical problem. An important role is attri...
Introduction: Lung diseases, especially COPD, are one of the leading causes of death. The aim of the...
The introduction of induced sputum, as the diagnostic and research tool allowed to define nonasthmat...
Określenie drobne drogi oddechowe (DDO) dotyczy oskrzeli poniżej 7. generacji, o średnicy mniejszej ...
Introduction. Bronchial asthma is a chronic, and the most common respiratory disease in children. Di...
Respiratory infections are one of the major causes of asthma exacerbations. Among numerous pathogens...