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Near-fatal asthma: recognition and management.
Current opinion in pulmonary medicine - 1 Jan 2008
Restrepo Ruben D, Peters Jay
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Near-fatal asthma continues to be a significant problem despite the decline in overall asthma mortality. The purpose of this review is to discuss recent advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of near-fatal asthma. RECENT FINDINGS: Two distinctive phenotypes of near-fatal asthma have been identified: one with eosinophilic inflammation associated with a...
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