Exhaled nitric oxide after a single dose of intramuscular triamcinolone in children with difficult to control asthma

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 573-578

  Panickar, Jayachandran R ^a   Bhatnagar, Neha ^a   Grigg, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exhaled nitric oxide; Intramuscular triamcinolone; Non eosinophilic asthma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUDESONIDE; MONTELUKAST; NITRIC OXIDE; PREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASTHMA; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GLUCOSURIA; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENORRHAGIA; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; EXHALATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 34347373053     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20583     Document Type: Review

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