书目名称 | Difficult To Treat Asthma |
副标题 | Clinical Essentials |
编辑 | Sandhya Khurana,Fernando Holguin |
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概述 | Details difficult to treat asthma, its difference from severe asthma, and clinical management guidelines.Contains clinical pearls from leading asthma experts that can be used as a quick bedside refere |
丛书名称 | Respiratory Medicine |
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描述 | This book provides a practical, stepwise, evidence-based approach to effective management of patients with difficult to treat asthma. The impact of asthma on morbidity and healthcare utilization increases exponentially with severity. Severe refractory asthma accounts for less than 5% of all asthma. Its prevalence, however, is often overestimated as there are several other confounding factors that make asthma ‘difficult to treat’. Many novel (albeit expensive) therapies are now available and providers caring for patients with severe asthma are charged with selecting the best evidence treatment. This calls for complex and nuanced decision-making. Whether people with asthma gain and maintain control over their condition depends not only on the availability of effective drugs, but also multiple patient and healthcare provider behaviors. Therefore, now more than ever, it has become increasingly important to differentiate “difficult” from “severe refractory” asthma to allow identification of patients most likely to benefit from these therapies. . .This volume delves into the current understanding of mechanisms and increasingly recognized heterogeneity of this complex disease. It discusse |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | asthma; difficult asthma; severe asthma; refractory asthma; uncontrolled asthma; persistent asthma |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20812-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-20814-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-20812-7Series ISSN 2197-7372 Series E-ISSN 2197-7380 |
issn_series | 2197-7372 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |