Asthmatic patients have a specific patterm of airway inflamation that underlies the clinical features. Corticosteroids known to be useful for controling asthma and have a mojor effect in reducting inflammation of the airway well, suppress the expression of various genes in the airway inflamation and repair the bronhial hyperresponsiveness. However, a few asthmatic patients show a poor or absent…
Gastroesophageal reflux diseases (GERD) close associated with any symptoms and airways disorders including chronic cough and asthma. The prevalence of GERD in asthma patients still unclear, approximately 34-89%. In many studies showed that approximately 55-82% asthma patients had GERD symptoms. Endoscopy finding from asthma patients showed that esophagitis prevalence is approximately 27-43%. Th…
Abnormality or lesion intra trakea or bronchial (endobronhial) variated from from benign to malignant lesion. Endobronchial cryotherapy is treatment modality that used freeze technical to destroy lesion intra airway lumen. Indicated endobronchial cryotherapy is intraluminal airway lesion or abnormality or obstruction trachea or bronchus. Because delayed effect of theatment, crytherapy was not i…