Special problems of the asthmatic patient

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-79

  Wallace, Jeanne M ^a   Stein, Susan ^a   Au, Janet ^a  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AIR EMBOLISM; ALTITUDE; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAROTRAUMA; BRONCHOSPASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVING; EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ALTITUDE; ASTHMA; ASTHMA, EXERCISE-INDUCED; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BAROTRAUMA; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIURETICS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; FUROSEMIDE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; LEUKOTRIENE ANTAGONISTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0030642341     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-199701000-00011     Document Type: Article

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