... patients with severe asthma if the diagnosis was unclear (24%), if treatment failure occurred (26%), and if the patients were at high risk (41%). Conclusions: Oral corticosteroids (OCSs) are considered as background therapy for severe asthma by GPs and specialists. In order to reduce the OCS burden...

... Corticosteroids Diagnostic bronchoscopy What Is Your Diagnosis? Respiration 2012;84:246 249 DOI: 10.1159/000338118 Received: December 13, 2011 Accepted after revision: March 14, 2012 Published online: June 9, 2012 A Very Unusual Cause of Persistent Cough Diagnosed by Bronchoscopy Yamilex Urbano-Arandaa María...

... Sarcoidosis Corticosteroids Tumour necrosis factor-α Infliximab Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease that may involve any organ [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ], but the lungs and lymphatic system are most commonly affected. Although the -aetiology of this disease remains unclear, there is evidence...

... that NF-ĸB-independent mechanisms may be responsible for anti-IL-8 effects of dexamethasone. 20 02 2009 27 08 2009 3 11 2009 Corticosteroids Cystic fibrosis Dexamethasone Epithelial cells Ibuprofen IL-1β IL-8 NF-ĸB NSAIDS TNF-α Transcription factors Cystic fibrosis...

...Lei Liu; Peter Urban; John F. Hunt; Patricia Wilkinson; Kappy Laning; Benjamin Gaston Background: Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy improves asthma outcome. Both the anti-inflammatory efficacy and toxicities of ICS therapy are dose dependent. Therefore, there is interest in monitoring airway...

... with the treatment with aminophylline, salbutamol and corticosteroid, transiently elevated serum creatine phosphokinase and myoglobinuria were present. Rhabdomyolysis has rarely been reported in cases of bronchial asthma. This case represents an extremely rare case of rhabdomyolysis following status asthmaticus...

...I. Zimmermann; A.A. Bugalho de Almeida; D. Schött; H. Schwabl; W.T. Ulmer The influence of oral corticosteroid therapy (7.5 and 15 mg prednisolon/ day for 8 days) on basophil releasability by antigens was investigated in a series of 16 patients with chronic obstructive airway disease...

...K. Spiropoulos; D. Lymberopoulos; G. Garantziotis; C. Gogos The concentration of secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) has been measured by the immunodiffusion method in 28 chronic bronchitis patients (group A) and in 11 comparable patients receiving corticosteroid therapy (0.5 mg/kg/day prednisone...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Prenatal lung development Corticosteroids NA-872 Pulmonary surfactant Lung structure Fetal mouse lung Accelerated differentiation Respiration: 43: 389-400 (1982) Influence of Transplacental NA-872 and Dexamethasonc Therapy...

..., AT III levels in the NST group and activated PC resistance in the SST group were significantly decreased. Thrombocyte aggregation tests suggested an incline after 10 days in both groups. Conclusions: We suggest that in patients with COPD exacerbation, addition of systemic corticosteroids to treatment...

... of Aspergillus sp. invasion in lung tissue. Lung tissue was obtained by biopsy or post mortem examination. Results: There were 4 patients with acute aspergillus pneumonia. Two of them were severely immunocompromised – one with dermatomyositis, who was treated with high doses of corticosteroids and methotrexate...

... (none or β 2 -bronchodilators 1–2 times/year; bronchodilators only intermittently; daily bronchodilators; bronchodilators in association with inhaled corticosteroids; oral corticosteroids), and (5) frequency of cough: score from 0 to 4 (no cough; 1–2 attack/year; monthly episodes; weekly episodes; daily...

...F. Yildiz; A.C. Kaur; A. Ilgazlı; M. Celikoglu; S. Kaçar Özkara; N. Paksoy; O. Özkarakaş Background: Although both inhaled and oral corticosteroids have anti-inflammatory effects causing improvement in clinical symptoms and spirometry in the treatment of asthma, the role of corticosteroids...

...O. Akkoca; D. Mungan; G. Karabiyikoglu; Z. Mısırlıgil Background: Patients with asthma incur the risk of steroid-induced myopathy, which is a well-known side effect of treatment with corticosteroids. However, the adverse effect of long-term steroid treatment on respiratory muscle function remains...

...Ulrich Laufs; Christian Schneider; Klaus Wassermann; Erland Erdmann Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) is a rare disease characterized by a progressive symptomatic deterioration of more than 1 month, pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophils, and a dramatic response to corticosteroid treatment. We...

... controls (p = 0.037). No association was found between socioeconomic status and smoking or infections. No association was found between maternal asthma or maternal use of corticosteroids and the following: maternal hypertension, maternal diabetes, low birth weight (<2,500 g), preterm delivery (<37...

... prescribed asthma treatment according to asthma guidelines. β 2 -agonist inhalers and theophylline tablets represent 41% of all prescribed medicines in asthma and corticosteroid inhalers 24% of medications. Eight physicians prescribed theophylline as the first and 20 physicians corticosteroid inhalers...