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Acute severe asthma: recent advances.
Current opinion in pulmonary medicine - 1 Jan 2007
Kaza Vaidehi, Bandi Venkata, Guntupalli Kalpalatha K
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Acute severe asthma is challenging to the clinician both in terms of recognition and appropriate treatment. About 30% of these episodes need admission to the medical intensive care unit with a mortality of 8%. Relapse rates vary from 7 to 15% depending on how well the patient is managed. The purpose of this review is to discuss recent advances in identification of risk factors, pathophysiology...
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