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ArticleClujul medical (1957)2013

The role of exhaled nitric oxide assessment in children with bronchial asthma.

Sorana Staticescu, Paraschiva Chereches Panta, Simona Tatar, Monica Culea, Mircea Victor Nanulescu

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Article in Clujul medical (1957), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sorana StaticescuPediatric Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Paraschiva Chereches PantaPediatric Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Simona TatarPediatric Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Monica CuleaBiomedical Physical Department, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Mircea Victor NanulescuPediatric Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROBabeș-Bolyai University · RO

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Abstract

backgroundExhaled nitric oxide (eNO) assessment in children with bronchial asthma (BA) is an easy and non-invasive test that provides informations on the presence of bronchial inflammation.

methodsThe study included 110 children aged between 5-18 years with a diagnosis of BA. The patients were assessed clinically (objective examination, questionnaire regarding the disease control) and by medical tests (exhaled breath analysis for nitric oxide, induced sputum, spirometry).

resultsOf the 33 patients with non-atopic BA, 9 (27.27%) presented normal eNO values, and 24 (72.72%) had higher than normal levels. There were 26 patients with controlled BA, 59 with partially controlled BA and 25 with uncontrolled BA, the levels of eNO demonstrating the existence of the statistically significant differences between the mean values of the variables obtained in the studied groups (p=0.003). Increased individual values were more frequently noted in patients with an exacerbation of asthma in the last month (70% vs 56.6%), but the differences were not statistically significant. Of the 77 patients with atopic BA, 35 (45.45%) had normal eNO, while 42 (54.54%) had increased values. The normal values of the eNO were most frequently noted in patients undergoing treatment with inhaled glucocorticoids (IGC). Patients with low percent of eosinophils in sputum had increased eNO values (p=0.03).

conclusionsThe investigation of the airways by measuring the eNO levels is a useful method of assessing bronchial inflammation in children with bronchial asthma, in order to establish the disease responsiveness and therapy.

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bronchial asthmachildexhaled nitric oxideinflammation

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