Comparison of the efficacy and safety of high doses of beclometasone dipropionate suspension for nebulization and beclometasone dipropionate via a metered-dose inhaler in steroid-dependent adults with moderate to severe asthma

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Grzelewska Rzymowska, I ^a   Kroczynska Bednarek, J ^a   Zarkovic, J ^b  

^a Institute of Internal Medicine   (Austria)

^b Ambulance Paediatr and Pneumology   (Poland)

Author keywords

Asthma; Beclometasone dipropionate; Inhaled drugs; Metered dose inhaler; Nebulized drugs

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; NEDOCROMIL SODIUM; SALBUTAMOL; STEROID; THEOPHYLLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; BECLOMETASONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; METERED DOSE INHALER; NEBULIZATION; NEBULIZER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; ADOLESCENT; DRUG EFFECT; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSIOLOGY; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BECLOMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; METERED DOSE INHALERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 11144284179     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-6111(03)90074-6     Document Type: Article

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