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Asthma, allergy and bronchial hyper‐reactivity to histamine in patients with bronchiectasis
Author(s) -
VARPELA E.,
LAITINEN L. A.,
KESKINEN H.,
KORHOLA O.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1978.tb03224.x
Subject(s) - bronchiectasis , asthma , medicine , allergy , histamine , immunology , dermatology , lung
Summary An allergy examination was made on forty‐eight consecutive bronchiectasis patients, with a mean age of 37 years. Eleven had confirmed asthma and another nine, making twenty in all (42%), had distinct allergic diathesis. Allergy to a specific allergen was established in five cases. 50% of the patients in the total series had bronchial histamine hyper‐reactivity, eleven without asthma or distinct allergic diathesis. The results corroborate views previously reported of the role of asthmatic symptoms and allergic diathesis as aetiological factors of bronchiectasis.