When Asthma is not Asthma

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 207-214

  Weinberger, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

asthma; cough; dyspnea; pseudoasthma; wheeze

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HISTAMINE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; SALBUTAMOL;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERIAL GAS; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ASTHMA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; CILIARY MOTILITY; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXERCISE TEST; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FEMALE WORKER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; GAS EXCHANGE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HAEMOPHILUS; HEART RATE; HIS BUNDLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; IONTOPHORESIS; KARTAGENER SYNDROME; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX EDEMA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG VENTILATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PEDIATRICIAN; PERTUSSIS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SWEAT TEST; TACHYPNEA; TRACHEOMALACIA; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WHEEZING;

EID: 80052710509     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: 15365956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e31822be102     Document Type: Review

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