Children with asthma: research Canadian Health Care Mall
In this article Canadian Health Care Mall will look at the problem of childhood asthma.
This case series is obviously limited by sample bias, and small sample size precluding simple generalizations. In addition, we cannot comment on whether our subjects had elevated numbers of mast cells within their airways, as Giemsa staining was not performed. With that said, mast cells were not found to be elevated in the study by Wenzel who found no difference between the number of mast cells within the airways of severe asthmatics compared to mild asthmatics and control subjects. Children with asthma referred to NJMRC often are among the most severe. In addition, only a minority of the children referred to NJMRC undergo bronchoscopy with biopsy.
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