Outpatient management of bronchial asthma in adults.

Abstract

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable airway hyperresponsiveness. Pharmacological therapy can include short acting beta2-agonists, low dose inhaled corticosteroids or long acting beta2-agonists, leukotriene modifying agents, anticholinergic bronchodilators, mast cell stabilizing medication and theophylline.