Problems with using exhaled nitric oxide to guide asthma treatment

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1511-

  Hargreave, F E ^a   Parameswaran, K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACCURACY; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANADA; CELL COUNT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPIRED AIR; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHILIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EXHALATION; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE;

EID: 33646950458     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2006.03.038     Document Type: Letter

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