The actual role of sodium cromoglycate in the treatment of asthma - A critical review

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1027-1032

  Netzer, Nikolaus C ^a,b,f   Kupper T ^c   Voss, Hans W ^d   Eliasson, Arn H ^e  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Clin Research Inc   (Germany)

^e Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^f Fachklinik Ghersburg für Geriatrische Rehabilitation ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory therapy; Asthma; Inhaled corticosteroids; Leukotriene antagonists; Sodium cromoglycate

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; CORTICOSTEROID; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; NEDOCROMIL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SALBUTAMOL; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ASTHMA; BASOPHIL; BONE DENSITY; BRONCHOSPASM; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL; EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAST CELL; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; METERED DOSE INHALER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROAT IRRITATION; THRUSH; TREATMENT DURATION; WATER LOSS; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; LONG TERM CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS; ADULT; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; ASTHMA, EXERCISE-INDUCED; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CROMOLYN SODIUM; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; SYMPATHOMIMETICS;

EID: 84877105612     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-011-0639-1     Document Type: Review

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