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Efficacy of antiepileptic drugs diphenine and carbamazepine in pharmacotherapy of children with bronchial asthma: is asthma a neurogenic inflammatory disease?
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M. Lomia, T. Tchelidze, M. Pruidze (Tbilisi, Georgia)		Abstract

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Purpose. We suppose that bronchial asthma has certain neurogenic inflammatory and paroxysmal mechanisms. Migraine and trigeminal neuralgia also are neurogenic inflammatory paroxysmal diseases, and some anticonvulsants are effective for their therapy. Taking this into account, we decided to investigate efficacy of anticonvulsants diphenine and carbamazepine in treatment of children with bronchial asthma.
Methods. We performed observational study in 27 children with... [View all]
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