ALLMedicine™ Pediatric Asthma Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - The impact of exposure to air pollutants, such as fine particulate matter (PM), on the immune system and its consequences on pediatric asthma, are not well understood. We investigated whether ambient levels of fine PM with aerodynamic diameter ≤2....

Mar 15th, 2023 - Frequent asthma exacerbators, defined as those experiencing >1 hospitalization in a year for an asthma exacerbation, represent an important subgroup of individuals with asthma. However, this group remains poorly defined and understudied in childre...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Redefining biomarkers in pediatric asthma: A commentary.|2023|Hopp RJ,Wilson MC,Pasha MA,|

Mar 9th, 2023 - Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease affecting roughly 8% of US children, and is characterized by intermittent symptoms of breathlessness/dyspnea, chest tightness, wheeze, and cough. Although asthma is currently the most common chronic disease ...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - The current review provides an assessment of the recent pediatric literature evaluating socioeconomic drivers of asthma incidence and morbidity. The review addresses the specific social determinants of health related to housing, indoor and outdoor...

Jan 26th, 2018 - Standardized pediatric asthma care has been shown to improve measures in specific hospital areas, but to our knowledge, the implementation of an asthma clinical practice guideline (CPG) has not been demonstrated to be associated with improved hosp...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease affecting roughly 8% of US children, and is characterized by intermittent symptoms of breathlessness/dyspnea, chest tightness, wheeze, and cough. Although asthma is currently the most common chronic disease ...

Feb 14th, 2023 - Asthma is the most common chronic illness of childhood. Bilevel positive airway pressure (BPAP) has been suggested as an adjunct therapy in the setting of moderate to severe asthma exacerbations. It is a form of noninvasive positive pressure venti...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - The proposed project aligns with our prior work targeting high-risk pediatric asthma populations in non-inner city environments by targeting adolescents at risk for future exacerbations from the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) at Arkansas Chi...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - (1) The design of hardware and software of the intelligent electronic stethoscope This project will optimize and develop the software and hardware equipment of electronic stethoscope according to the shortcomings of existing electronic stethoscope...

Feb 1st, 2023 - The diaphragm produces a craniocaudal movement of its dome during contraction, making it the most crucial breathing muscle due to its unique anatomical structure and contribution to minute ventilation (60%-80%). Patients with (COPD) or asthma ofte...

Dec 6th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Michael Wechsler, MD: Hello and welcome to Medscape's InDiscussion series on moderate severe asthma. I'm Dr Mike Wechsler, and this is episode six of the first season. Today we'll be discussing the trea...

Oct 21st, 2022 - NASHVILLE, Tennessee — For children with uncontrolled asthma on standard therapies and meeting criteria of a type 2 (T2) inflammatory phenotype, a prospective 1-year extension from a phase 3 trial supports the biologic dupilumab as a potential tre...

Oct 6th, 2022 - A simple screening tool based on cough, wheeze, and medication use flagged asthma risk in 3-year-olds with greater accuracy than standard strategies, researchers reported. The CHILDhood Asthma Risk Tool (CHART) outperformed specialists' assessment...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Children born to mothers who take antibiotics during pregnancy may be at an increased risk of developing pediatric asthma and other diseases involved in the atopic march, a systematic review and meta-analysis reports. "Antibiotic use during pregna...

Jan 5th, 2022 - Traffic-related air pollution was responsible for nearly 2 million new asthma cases in children across the globe in 2019, according to a new study. Of the 1.85 million new pediatric asthma cases that were attributed to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), two-...