When presented with the same clinical information about a series of pediatric asthma patients, specialists varied in the conclusions they drew. The 14 pediatric pulmonologists and allergists in this ...

Severe asthma can have a devastating effect on sufferers, affecting their ability to work or go to school and to lead normal lives. It is difficult to treat because it is not a single disease entity.

Researchers sought to characterize the effect of the changes in the GINA 2019 recommendations in a real-world patient setting. This article is part of MPR’s coverage of the CHEST Virtual 2020 meeting.

A 40-year-old woman comes to the family practice clinic for a routine annual visit. She reports a 6-month history of progressively severe episodic shortness of breath, cough, wheeze and chest ...

Introduction: In asthma, airway remodeling is defined as structural changes of the airways. The association between remodeling and asthma severity is still unclear, and there are limited data on the ...

Asthma is a major health issue worldwide, and there is a need for noninvasive assessment tools to better understand the disease process and reproducibly quantify the disease burden in relation to the ...

Objective: The asthma practice guidelines developed by the National Institutes of Health include a system for classifying asthma severity. The goal of the present study was to assess the interrater ...