"Ovarian asthma"-- act or fancy?
Gotthardt, M.; Clark, J.D.; Roy, T.M.
Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association 94(3): 105-108
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-0294 PMID: 8820574 Document Number: 455313
Hormonal interactions have been suspected of worsening airways dysfunction in a subgroup of female asthmatics. Despite reports of fatal and near-fatal asthma attacks associated with menstruation, there is little consensus about the impact of this biologic function on the clinical expression of asthma. The authors present a young asthmatic female whose episodic and potentially fatal worsening of asthma typically occurred within the days prior to her menses in the absence of other trigger factors.