Prognosis after puberty for 442 asthmatic children examined and treated on specific allergologic principles
| Autor: | Erik Ryssing, E. Winge Flensborg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
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Fungus allergy
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Allergy business.industry Severe asthma Puberty General Medicine medicine.disease Prognosis Asthma Asthmatic children Immune System Diseases Long period Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Familial predisposition Hypersensitivity Medicine Asthmatic patient Humans Sexual Maturation business Child |
| Zdroj: | Acta paediatrica. 52 |
| ISSN: | 0365-1436 |
| Popis: | Summary By means of questionnaires and/or personal inquiry information has been procured on the 503 asthmatic patients seen in the Clinic who were over 15 years of age in 1960. Useful data were obtained for 98,4 % of the series under review. Four hundred and forty-two of these patients had been treated in the clinic on the lines stated. At the follow-up 36.8% had been quite symptom-free the past year or more. Nine point four per cent had occasionally experienced dyspnoea, and some of these also a cough, while 53.8% continued to have asthmatic symptoms. None had died from asthma. The fairly poor result was due partly to the relatively great number of severe cases (42 %) in the series, and partly to the fact that far too many had not been submitted to treatment till after a long period of illness; 37 % after not less than 5 years of illness and 16 % after at least 10 years of illness. It is shown that the chance of obtaining freedom from symptoms is greatest for the patients submitted to early treatment. The prognosis is, moreover, poorest in cases of severe asthma and a familial predisposition to atopic illness; further, in cases with other associated atopic illness and with increasing numbers of manifest allergies, as well as in cases with complicating pollen and/or mold fungus allergy. Finally, a markedly increased tendency towards freedom from symptoms has been demonstrated during the years of puberty. A final evaluation of specific allergologic treatment of asthma in childhood will probably require prolonged experiments of treatment, using the double-blind technique. |
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