New Clinical Advances in Pediatric Asthma
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Pediatrics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 862
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2. Prima Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: allergy; pulmonology; lung function; clinical trials; occupational health; sports medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Pediatric asthma still represents a major clinical challenge in the modern medical landscape despite major research discoveries. Although inhaled steroids have been shown to be the cornerstone in clinical management, being both efficacious and safe, there is still a lot of controversy about their use in both parents and physicians. Still significant problems exist regarding diagnosis, proper choice of therapy regarding different phenotypes, the place of specific allergen immunotherapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, and biologics as the new classes of treatment in moderate to severe pediatric asthma. Low level of control, impaired lung function, and low level of physical activity all present in a significant proportion of patients with pediatric asthma can have a long-lasting impact on health in adulthood and be precursors of COPD. The most common therapeutic strategies are based on inhaled steroids, β2-agonists, muscarinic antagonists, and oral anti-leukotrienes. For the last few years, they have also been based on innovative and highly effective biological therapies with monoclonal antibodies (i.e., anti-IgE, anti-IL4Rα/IL13Rα1, Anti-IL5/IL5Rα). However, many issues are still open, and there is a need for improvement in clinical management in pediatric asthma.
The present special edition aims to describe the most up-to-date clinical advances in pediatric asthma and to outline the most promising and challenging research perspectives for the future.
Prof. Dr. Davor Plavec
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pediatric asthma
- clinical management
- treatment advances
- diagnostic advances
- biologic therapy
- inhaled steroids
- control of asthma
- exacerbation prevention
- quality of life
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