When asthma is severe and long term, it becomes less amenable to treatment -- or less "reversible." This process, remodeling of the airways with peribronchial fibrosis, has been widely attributed to ...

Please can you give a brief introduction to exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB)? Exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) is defined as acute, transient airway narrowing that occurs in association ...

Paradoxical bronchospasm, although rare, should be recognized more often in spirometry tests, said pulmonologist Malvika Kaul, MD, who discussed study findings from a population of veterans with ...

PFTs were also completed in order to determine the efficacy of ipratropium bromide. Paradoxical bronchoconstriction is an underrecognized adverse event that can occur with administration of β ...