Bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis: a new therapeutic challenge. Disfunction co-morbidities--shared therapies?
Mihălţan, F.
Pneumologia 54(1): 25-27
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 2067-2993 PMID: 16193729 Document Number: 585638
More and more it is spoken about this morbid association between asthma and allergic rhinitis; this two diseases are interconnected but were often distinctly approached over time. Anyway, they share interesting pathogenic and therapeutic features. The current article reviews epidemiologic data, pathogenic mechanisms, common actions as well as common elements coming from experimental medicine, everything pleading for a new concept, "one airway" or "Combined Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Syndrome". From here we can also draw conclusions marking new therapeutic directions where anti- leukotrienes often prove to be useful.