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KMID : 0338420100250030309
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The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
2010 Volume.25 No. 3 p.309 ~ p.316
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Airway Responsiveness to Inhaled Aspirin is Influenced by Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Asthmatic Patients
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Kim Sung-Soo
Choi In-Seon S.
Kim Yeon-Joo
Kim Chang-Seong
Han Eui-Ryoung
Park Dong-Jin
Kim Dae-Eun
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Abstract
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Background/Aims: Many patients with aspirin-induced asthma have severe methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), suggesting a relationship between aspirin and methacholine in airway response. This study was performed to determine whether methacholine AHR affects the response of asthmatics to inhaled aspirin.
Methods: The clinical records of 207 asthmatic patients who underwent inhalation challenges with both aspirin and methacholine were reviewed retrospectively. An oral aspirin challenge was performed in patients with a negative inhalation response. The bronchial reactivity index (BRindex) was calculated from the percent decrease in lung function divided by the last dose of the stimulus.
Results: Forty-one (20.9%) and 14 (7.1%) patients showed a positive response to aspirin following an inhalation and oral challenge, respectively. Only 24.3 and 14.3% of the responders had a history of aspirin intolerance, respectively. The methacholine BRindex was significantly higher in the inhalation responders (1.46 ± 0.02) than in the oral responders (1.36 ± 0.03, p < 0.01) and in non-responders (n = 141, 1.37 ± 0.01, p < 0.001). The aspirin BRindex was significantly correlated with the methacholine BRindex (r = 0.270, p < 0.001). Three of four patients who received the oral challenge, despite a positive inhalation test, showed negative responses to the oral challenge. Two of these patients had severe AHR.
Conclusions: A considerable number of asthmatic patients with no history of aspirin intolerance responded to the inhalation aspirin challenge. The airway response to aspirin was significantly correlated with methacholine-AHR, and a false-positive response to aspirin inhalation test seemed to occur primarily in patients with severe AHR.
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KEYWORD
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Asthma, aspirin-induced, Methacholine, Bronchial reactivity
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