Clinical Advances in Allergy and Asthma: Issues, Strategies, and Future Directions
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Pulmonology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2024) | Viewed by 25261
Special Issue Editor
2. Respiraotry Medicine Unit, ASST-Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Interests: asthma; airway remodelling; allergy; biological therapy; pulmonary function test; FeNO; airway hyperactivity; bronchodilation; methacholine; hypersensitivity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Asthma and allergic diseases are major clinical challenges in the modern medical landscape. Their clinical, economic, and social impact puts a strain on any national healthcare system and impairs patients’ quality of life. These are multifactorial pathologies with genetic and ambient triggering factors and unique pathophysiological underlying dynamics. Their different cellular, molecular, and clinical features make these diseases real medical enigmas that clinicians are called upon to decipher. The most common therapeutic strategies are based on inhalatory steroids, β2-agonists, muscarinic antagonists, oral anti-leukotrienes, and chromones. Until a few years ago, thermoplastic was the latest available therapeutic resource. However, the development of innovative and highly effective biological therapies with monoclonal antibodies (i.e., Anti-IgE, Anti-IL4Rα/IL13Rα1, Anti-IL5/IL5Rα) changed the therapeutic scene. However, many issues are still open, such as the long time elapsing between a proper diagnosis and adequate treatment or patients’ need to take numerous medications throughout the day.
The present special edition aims to describe the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic evidence, discussed with a critical and multidisciplinary approach, and outline the most promising and challenging research perspectives for the future.
Dr. Laura Pini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- asthma
- hypersensitivity
- airway hyperactivity
- allergic rhinitis
- nasal polyposis
- allergy
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