A 43-year-old man with long-standing asthma comes for a consultation with you. He has just moved to your practice and all your information about him is not up to date. He has just returned from a ...

I asked her to come back in 4 weeks to reassess. She comes back in 4 weeks and she has partial response. She's much better, but not completely better. And her FEV1 improved to 72% predicted, but she ...

Asthma is an inflammatory condition of the airways affecting more than 339 million people globally. In South Africa, more than 20% of children and 10-15% of adults have asthma. For those living with ...

This case presents a patient with poorly controlled asthma that remains refractory to treatment despite use of standard-of-care therapeutic options. For patients such as this, one needs to embark on ...

This case presents the initial diagnosis and treatment of asthma in a young adult, and illustrates several important challenges that can arise in these patients. First, many adults have a history ...

Find out if you are overusing your pump with the online test. Source: AstraZeneca An alarming study reveals that South Africans are overusing asthma reliever pumps. This is a risky bet with an ...

An over-reliance on the blue reliever pump could be linked to increased risk of asthma attacks and deaths in South Africa, which has the fifth highest asthma mortality rate in the world. This was ...

The primary treatment goals of ABPA include controlling symptoms of asthma or cystic fibrosis, preventing and/or treating pulmonary exacerbation, decreasing pulmonary inflammation, and reducing the ...