Do measures of bronchial responsiveness add information in diagnosis and monitoring of patients with asthma?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 439-441

  Joos, G F ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; HISTAMINE; MANNITOL; METHACHOLINE; NITRIC OXIDE; STEROID;

AGE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SPUTUM;

ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; SPUTUM;

EID: 0034834293     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.01.00248301     Document Type: Editorial

References (19)

1. Asthma. From bronchoconstriction to airways inflammation and remodeling
2. Measurement of airway hyperresponsiveness: New considerations
3. Airway responsiveness. Standardized challenge testing with pharmacological, physical and sensitizing stimuli in adults
4. Guidelines for Methacholine and Exercise Challenge Testing - 1999
5. Use of induced sputum cell counts to investigate airway inflammation in asthma
6. Induced sputum cell counts: Their usefulness in clinical practice
7. Clinical aspects of exhaled nitric oxide
8. Airway responsiveness in asthma: Not just a matter of airway inflammation
9. Association of sputum parameters with clinical and functional measurements in asthma
10. Dissociation between airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness in allergic asthma
11. Sputum analysis, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and airway function in asthma: Results of a factor analysis
12. Markers of airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness in patients with well-controlled asthma
13. Indirect bronchial hyperresponsiveness in asthma: Mechanisms, pharmacology and implications for clinical research
14. Differences in the effect of allergen avoidance on bronchial hyperresponsiveness as measured by methacholine, adenosine 5′-monophosphate, and exercise in asthmatic children
15. Dose-responses over time to inhaled fluticasone propionate treatment of exercise- and methacholine-induced bronchoconstriction in children with asthma
16. A dose-dependent effect of the novel inhaled corticosteroid ciclesonide on airway responsiveness to adenosine-5′-monophosphate in asthmatic patients
17. Monitoring the patient with asthma: An evidence-based approach
18. Effect of long-term treatment with an inhaled corticosteroid (budesonide) on airway hyperresponsiveness and clinical asthma in nonsteroid-dependent asthmatics
19. Clinical control and histopathologic outcome of asthma when using airway hyperresponsiveness as an additional guide to long-term treatment