Sentence examples for major exacerbation from inspiring English sources

This scoring chart scores the major exacerbation symptoms such as dyspnoea, coughing, mucus production and colour and oedema.

-, rare use; 1, infrequent use, for therapy-resistant disease, complications, severe flare, major exacerbation, and for bridging the lag-time of recently started therapy; 2, frequently added to/used as the basic therapeutic strategy; 3, basic part of the therapeutic strategy.

Major exacerbations, requiring use of systemic corticosteroids or hospital admission, resulted in withdrawal from the study.

Although this is a small group of patients to be taken for definitive conclusions about the viral infection as a major trigger for exacerbation of severe asthma, their presence especially in winter period plays an important role in worsening of the disease.

Growing evidence of its association with bronchial asthma is emerging: both as a risk factor for asthma development and a major factor in exacerbations.

This study showed that the major determinant of future exacerbations, regardless of lung function, was an exacerbation the previous year, severe enough to be hospitalized or be treated with antibiotics or systemic corticosteroids.

Furthermore, we demonstrate that IL-1 plays a major role in this exacerbation.

The principal cause of death was often listed as respiratory failure and ARDS, but some patients died due to major organ failure or exacerbation of underlying conditions after the patient's viral pneumonia was resolved; antiviral therapy, particularly if it is applied late, would not be expected to impact such mortality.

However, an important consideration is that among those children with asthma attributable to living near a major road, all subsequent exacerbation should be attributed to air pollution, regardless of the trigger, assuming that these children would not otherwise have had the disease (Künzli et al. 2008).

The major bacterial cause of exacerbations of COPD is NTHi, 25 to over 80%% of exacerbations are associated with H. influenzae[35, 57 59].

In light of the fact that respiratory viruses are detected in 50% of exacerbations a major task is the reduction of unnecessary antibiotic treatment in patients with mild to moderate COPD exacerbations to stop the threatening increase in AB resistance [ 8].