Asthma: Origin, Mechanisms, and Clinical Aspects

摘要: Although asthma responds to therapy directed at changes in the airways of bronchial tree, cause asthmatic response may lie elsewhere. Thus, treatment need be specific causative factor and any organ or tissue that is primarily responsible. It not possible provide an accurate breakdown frequency with which other sites are etiologically involved, but a large proportion patients infectious disorders upper respiratory tract appear initiate bronchospastic reaction. A relatively small cases attributable as secondary reactions primary diseases located various organs body, including lungs themselves.