Clinical significance of decline in serum IgE levels in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 204-210

  Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh N ^a   Saxena, Akshay K ^a   Saikia, Biman ^a   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a   Jindal, Surinder K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

ABPA, Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; Computed tomography; High attenuation mucus; Hyperdense mucus; IgE; Relapse; Remission

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PREDNISOLONE; FUNGUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TESTS; SPIROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73749088045     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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