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SUBMITTER: Kostakou E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6780340 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kostakou Eirini E Kaniaris Evangelos E Filiou Effrosyni E Vasileiadis Ioannis I Katsaounou Paraskevi P Tzortzaki Eleni E Koulouris Nikolaos N Koutsoukou Antonia A Rovina Nikoletta N
Journal of clinical medicine 20190822 9
Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease that is associated with variable expiratory flow, variable respiratory symptoms, and exacerbations which sometimes require hospitalization or may be fatal. It is not only patients with severe and poorly controlled asthma that are at risk for an acute severe exacerbation, but this has also been observed in patients with otherwise mild or moderate asthma. This review discusses current aspects on the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of acute severe as ...[more]