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Annual Reports of Misasa Medical Center, Okayama University volume67
1996-11 発行

気管支喘息症例に対する鼻腔内ステロイド療法

Mifune, Takashi
Mitsunobu, Fumihiro Kaken ID publons researchmap
Hosaki, Yasuhiro
Ashida, Kozo Kaken ID researchmap
Yokota, Satoshi
Tsugeno, Hirofumi
Takeuchi, Kazuaki
Nawa, Yuichiro
Tanizaki, Yoshiro
Ochi, Koji
Harada, Hideo
Publication Date
1996-11
Abstract
Bronchial asthma is often accompanied with allergic rhinitis or chronic sinusitis. Mucosal abnormalities of sinonasal cavity may influence lower respiratory responses in patients with asthma. We experienced a case of 72-year-old woman with asthma, who had dyspnea on exertion and a large volume of expectoration of more than 100mℓ a day. Furthermore she had nasal symptoms (nasal obstruction and rhinorrea) with prominent post-nasal discharge. Computed tomography (CT) scans of sinonasal cavity revealed marked thickness of nasal mucosa. Although her asthma symptoms such as wheezing and dyspnea improved by administration of bronchodialators, antiallergic agent, and beclomethason di isocyanate (BDI) accompanied with spa therapy after admission, the volume of expectoration revealed no decrease and her peak expiratory flow (PEF) didn't increase. The volume of expectoration and the PEF showed marked improvement after starting of intranasal glucocorticoid therapy. It is suggested from her clinical course that treatment with intranasal glucocorticoids is very important in asthmatic patients with mucosal abnormalities of sinonasal cavity.
Keywords
bronchial asthma (気管支喘息)
rhinitis (鼻炎)
intranasal steroid therapy (鼻腔内吸入ステロイド療法)
expectoration (喀痰排出)
peak expiratory flow (ピークフロー)
ISSN
0918-7839
NCID
AN10430852
NAID