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Is methacholine challenge on its way out?

Is it necessary to prescribe a steroid taper after two weeks of high-dose prednisone (60 mg daily)?

What features on PFT or flow-volume loops do you look at to suspect small airway dysfunction?

Often distal flattening of expiratory limb or decreased Fev25-50/FVC is referred for small airway dysfunction but it is advised against using it give ...

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Do you avoid use of inhalers with milk protein in patients with a milk allergy?

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What is your approach to a patient with undetectable MMR titers checked prior to or during immunosuppression and a history of MMR vaccination in childhood?

Is there a role for booster vaccination and if so, how do you approach the timing when a patient is already on a biologic for immunosuppression?

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Is there a role for biologics to help patients with ABPA who are steroid responsive and have removed their allergen insult, but continue to have an elevated serum IgE and incomplete resolution of symptoms return to their baseline functional status?

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The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2004 Mar

Contamination of dry powder inhalers for asthma with milk proteins containing lactose.

Journal of clinical medicine, 2022 Dec 10

Lactose-Containing Dry-Powder Inhalers for Patients with Cow's Milk Protein Allergy-The Conundrum; A National Survey of Pediatric Pulmonologists and Allergologists.

Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022 Dec 02

Perioperative Evaluation and Management of Patients on Glucocorticoids.

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021 Apr 20

Glucocorticoid Withdrawal-An Overview on When and How to Diagnose Adrenal Insufficiency in Clinical Practice.

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