Difficult Asthma (Clinical Focus Series)

Key Features :

• Provides a focussed, up-to-date summary of clinical assessment and management of this complex clinical problem, which will be invaluable for clinicians aiming to establish an optimized clinical service.
• Defines the current scientific understanding of the immunological mechanisms and disease heterogeneity that are important in refractory asthma.
• Provides an insight into how having refractory asthma can affect the physical and psychological aspects of a person’s life and outlines the societal cost and economic burden of this condition.
• Examines the role of novel therapeutic strategies for refractory asthma.
• Defines the important research priorities to advance our understanding of this clinical area.