ReviewThe World Allergy Organization journal2018
Confounders of severe asthma: diagnoses to consider when asthma symptoms persist despite optimal therapy.
Review in The World Allergy Organization journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- The role of radiological imaging in the management of severe and difficult-to-treat asthma.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2024Review
- Asthma Care in the Elderly: Practical Guidance and Challenges for Clinical Management - A Framework of 5 "Ps".Journal of asthma and allergy · 2023Review
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- Cat allergen exposure in a naturalistic exposure chamber: A prospective observational study in cat-allergic subjects.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022Observational
- When is asthma not guilty?International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2021Review
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- How Frequently Is Asthma Objectively Demonstrated before Starting a Biologic? Quality Assessment of a Group Practice of Allergists and Immunologists.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Unsuspected foreign-body aspiration in adult patient with status asthmaticus: Case report.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Article
- Needs for Systems Approaches to Better Treat Individuals With Severe Asthma: Predicting Phenotypes and Responses to Treatments.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Review
- Environmental Exposures and Asthma in Active Duty Service Members.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2019Review
- Severe Asthma and Allergy: A Pediatric Perspective.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2019Review
- [Consensus document for severe asthma in adults. 2022 update].Open respiratory archivesArticle
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Abstract
Asthma can often be challenging to diagnose especially when patients present with atypical symptoms. Therefore, it is important to have a broad differential diagnosis for asthma to ensure that other conditions are not missed. Clinicians must maintain a high index of suspicion for asthma mimickers, especially when patients fail to respond to conventional therapy. The purpose of this review is to briefly review some of the more common causes of asthma mimickers that clinicians should consider when the diagnosis of asthma is unclear.
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