Asthma Bronchial - Dictionary Of Medical Terms

Bronchial asthma

Bronchial asthma (asthma bronchiale) is an allergic disease characterized by repeated attacks of expiratory dyspnea due to impaired bronchial patency.

Allocate:

• Atopic bronchial asthma (asthma bronchiale atopicum) - one of the variants of non-infectious-allergic bronchial asthma, associated with the formation of cellular antibodies - reagins (IgE);
• Asthma bronchial hypereosinophilic (asthma bronchiale hypereosinophilicum) - characterized by high eosinophilia in sputum and blood;
• Asthma bronchial infectious-allergic (asthma bronchiale infectiosoallergicum) - caused by infectious allergens;
• Asthma bronchial non-infectious-allergic (asthma bronchiale noninfectiosoallergicum) - caused by non-infectious allergens;
• Professional bronchial asthma (asthma bronchiale proffessionale) is caused by allergens that affect a person in the conditions of his industrial activity.

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