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Dubai Final-v20.indd - World Allergy Organization

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regulates igE production and eosinophile count in patients who show 1-3 times wheeze after life, and has likely action to improve<br />

wheeze expression clinically.<br />

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EValUaTion oF Small airWaYS oF JaPanESE CHilDHooD aSTHma BY HrCT anD iTS aSSoCiaTion WiTH SnPS<br />

tomikawa, m. 1 , Oguma, t. 2 , niimi, A. 2 , matsui, E. 3 , Kondo, n. 3 and Ebisawa, m. 1<br />

1 2 Pediatrics, sagamihara national Hospital, sagamihara, Japan. respiratory medicine, graduate school of medicine, Kyoto<br />

University, Kyoto, Japan. 3Pediatrics, graduate school of medicine gifu University, gifu, Japan.<br />

Objectives: the purposes of these studies were to evaluate small airways in childhood asthma by high-resolution computed<br />

tomography (HrCt) and to examine the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (snPs) with small airways’ obstruction.<br />

methods: ten asthmatic patients (6 males & 4 Females) treated with iCs were recruited to the evaluation of small airways. By<br />

using HrCt, low attenuation area (lAA) % and mean lung density (mlD) % were examined. ninety three patients (70 males & 23<br />

females) were recruited to snPs study and were divided into %FEF50%≥80% group (n=34) and %FEF50%

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