Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Zach, M; Polgar, G; Kump, H; Kroisel, P.
Cold air challenge of airway hyperreactivity in children: practical application and theoretical aspects.
Pediatr Res. 1984; 18(5):469-478
Doi: 10.1203/00006450-198405000-00016
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- Zach Maximilian
- Co-Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
- Kroisel Peter
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- In 23 children with asthma and 18 healthy controls, cold air challenge ( CACh ) was done twice during the same half day, and in the asthmatics a third time together with a histamine challenge (HCh) 2 wk later. Pulmonary functions were tested before and after each challenge. No overlapping of individual responses to CACh in seven forced expiratory flow tests proved the power of discrimination of this technique in children. The limits of "normal" reactions ranged from minus 9% for larger airway-related to 26% for smaller airway-related flows. Short-term reproducibility of induced changes, in percentage of baseline, was excellent (r = 0.815-0.954); in percentage of predicted postchallenge abnormality it was even better (r = 0.926-0.975). The response in small airway-related flow rates (-43.1 +/- 12.8 to -51.9 +/- 16.8% of baseline) was much larger than in others (-27.6 +/- 14.6 to -32.1 +/- 17.3% of baseline). This, the different baseline-to-response correlations in various measurements, and the divergent dose response to colder versus less cold air in large (60.7 +/- 21.9 versus 65.4 +/- 21.5% predicted, postchallenge values) and small airway-related tests (28.9 +/- 18.7 versus 29.5 +/- 15.1% predicted, postchallenge values) in asthmatic children suggest a predetermined, small airway-related limitation of individual reactivity, which is independent of the baseline situation. All asthmatics responded positively to HCh but quantitative results of the two methods did not correlate. Responses to CACh also better characterized the clinical severity of asthma than those of HCh.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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