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Severe asthma in school-age children: evaluation and phenotypic advances.
Current allergy and asthma reports - 1 May 2015
Coverstone Andrea, Bacharier Leonard B, Fitzpatrick Anne M
Abstract excerpt
Although the majority of children with asthma have a favorable clinical response to treatment with low to moderate doses of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), a small subset of children have "severe" asthma characterized by ongoing symptoms and airway inflammation despite treatment with high doses of ICS and even oral corticosteroids. Although there is symptom heterogeneity in the affected children, children with...
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