Overview
- Thoroughly explores and considers the impact of age, special considerations in young children, issues in adherence, and the importance of a formal approach in the transition to adult care for adolescent patients with severe asthma
- Written by experts in the field, this book focuses on multidisciplinary management of severe asthma, including information updated current research and future directions in the field
- Addresses severe asthma in children as a heterogeneous and often difficult-to-treat disorder, thereby approaching the subject in consideration to the disproportionate amount of asthma related healthcare expenditures
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Overview
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Front Matter
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Diagnosis of Severe Asthma
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Management of Severe Asthma
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Current and Future Research
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About this book
This book provides readers with a comprehensive review of severe asthma in children and adolescents, covering epidemiology, genetics, risk factors, co-morbidities, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment. Written by leaders in the field, chapter discussions draw on the mechanisms driving the disease, genetics, multidisciplinary approaches, immunomodulators, and other important aspects in the management of the disease.
Severe Asthma in Children and Adolescents: Mechanisms and Management is designed to be a practical guide, opening with an introduction on the epidemiology of severe childhood asthma, as well as a discussion of special considerations of the disease unique to the preschool-aged patient. The distinctions between the diagnosis and management of asthma in young children of various ages, and specific approaches for the adolescent with severe asthma, including the transition into adult care are then addressed. Finally, the book closes with a discussion on the current state and future avenues for severe asthma research.
Severe Asthma in Children and Adolescents is an indispensable reference for the healthcare professional, for basic and translational researchers, as well as for students, residents and fellows.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erick Forno, MD, MPH
Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Department of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sejal Saglani
Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
National Heart & Lung Institute
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Severe Asthma in Children and Adolescents
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms and Management
Editors: Erick Forno, Sejal Saglani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27431-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27433-7Published: 24 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27431-3Published: 13 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Allergology, Pediatrics