1. Allergy Immunotherapy as an Early Intervention in Patients With Child-Onset Atopic Asthma.
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Wang, Julie
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IMMUNOTHERAPY , *ASTHMA in children , *PEDIATRIC respiratory diseases , *RESPIRATORY allergy , *CLINICAL immunology , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
The article discusses research which evaluates the beneficial effects of routine immunotherapy as an early intervention in patients with childhood-onset atopic asthma. It references a study by H. Nagaya and colleagues in a 2006 issue of the "International Archives of Allergy and Immunology." The beneficial effects of immunotherapy on forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) were analyzed retrospectively in 43 unselected patients. Results showed that there was a significant inverse correlation between the duration of asthma symptoms before immunotherapy and the changes in FEV1 before and after immunotherapy. It is recommended that immunotherapy should be started as early as possible at the youngest age.
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- 2007
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