Asthma
- Asthma: current controversies and emerging therapies
Anti-inflammatory drugs for maintenance therapy, use of beta agonists, emergency management, immunotherapy, and newer therapies.
- Noninfectious respiratory disease in pregnancy
BACKGROUND Pregnancy increases the risk of many noninfectious respiratory conditions.
OBJECTIVE To review the clinical presentation and management of a variety of noninfectious respiratory conditions in pregnant women.
SUMMARY Asthma, aspiration pneumonia, venous air embolism, adult respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary embolism, and deep venous thrombosis may have unique features in pregnant women.
CONCLUSIONS Evaluation and treatment of these diseases and conditions requires an understanding of the normal physiologic alterations that accompany pregnancy and an awareness of the risks of medication use during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.
- Sleep in the patient with lung disease
How to recognize and manage the ill effects that sleep-related respiratory changes can have on underlying lung disease, including COPD, asthma, and interstitial lung disease.
- The many facets of occupational asthma
Occupational asthma presents a variety of concerns-medical, occupational, and legal.
- Asthma: current strategies for treatment
Inhalation therapy with an anti-inflammatory and direct bronchodilator specifically targets airway inflammation.