Third International Pediatric Consensus statement on the management of childhood asthma

Ozone: A trigger for hospital pediatric asthma emergency room visits

“…The definition of doctor-diagnosed asthma was the one given in the last international consensus statement, i.e., recurrent wheezing and/or coughing, especially at night and triggered by allergens, exercise, or viral infections, provided other conditions have been excluded. 22 Children under the age of 1 year were excluded because of the difficulty in establishing a diagnosis of asthma in this age group. Age, time of the emergency room visit, treatments administered in the emergency room, and the decision to hospitalize were registered for all patients.…”

Childhood asthma as an allergic disease: rationale for the development of future treatment

“…International guidelines for asthma management emphasise early initiation of treatment targeting airway in¯ammation. The rationale for this approach is that it improves symptom control as well as functional outcome and can also prevent irreversible loss of lung function [3,24,77,117].…”

“…If reduced growth velocity is evident, a reduction in dose is recommended, although this could compromise disease control [24]. However, the overall recommendations are that symptom control should be the main aim of treatment [20,24,77,117].…”

Synergistische Effekte einer Kombinationstherapie von inhalativen Glucocorticosteroiden mit lang wirkenden β2-Rezeptoragonisten in der Behandlung des Asthma bronchiale

“…Entsprechend der Symptome und der Lungenfunktion (FEV 1 , Peak-Flow) wird das Asthma bronchiale in Stufen eingeteilt und mit zunehmender Erkrankungsschwere intensiver therapiert [13,13,53,54,92,95]. Von der Deutschen Atemwegsliga wird in Anlehnung an die Empfehlungen der National Institutes of Health die Asthmatherapie in vier Stufen eingeteilt.…”