Asthma is a triad of intermittent airway obstruction, bronchial smooth muscle cell
hyperreactivity to bronchoconstrictors, and chronic bronchial inflammation. From an
aetiological standpoint, asthma is a heterogenous disease, but often appears as a form of
immediate hypersensitivity. Many patients with asthma have other manifestations of atopy,
such as rhinitis or eczema. Even among non-atopic patients with asthma, the
pathophysiology of airway constriction is similar, raising the hypothesis that alternative …

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