(1) Hypokalemia has been demonstrated with the use of albuterol given by the intramuscular, intravenous and subcutaneous (SC) routes as well as with SC epinephrine.
(2) Albuterol had no effect on lung function either before or during steroid therapy.
(3) The bronchospasmolytic effect of 12 micrograms of formoterol was compared with that of 200 micrograms of albuterol (salbutamol) in a single-center, double-blind, randomized within-patient study.
(4) The inhaled albuterol odds ratio was 0.88 (95% confidence interval, 0.29 to 2.62) using control group A and 1.40 (95% confidence interval, 0.48 to 4.09) using control group B.
(5) One puff of fenoterol (200 micrograms) is about equipotent to 2 puffs of albuterol (2 X 100 micrograms) or 2 puffs of terbutaline (2 X 250 micrograms) with the same duration of effect.
(6) The cromolyn group showed significantly less (P less than .01) improvement than the albuterol group (31% drop at the screening visit to 14% drop at treatment day 1).
(7) Therefore, the inferior response to albuterol administered by ultrasonic nebulizer was at least in part due to the superimposed broncho-constriction occurring with ultrasonically administered saline solution.
(8) Albuterol caused a small but significant increase in heart rate that was similar following both delivery methods.
(9) The data show that the 4 mg albuterol CR tablet (q12h) is bioequivalent to a 2 mg conventional albuterol tablet (q6h).
(10) Albuterol was allowed as concurrent medication when needed.
(11) The transport rate is enhanced by methacholine, phenylephrine, and especially by albuterol.
(12) Hypokalemia and lactic acidosis developed following correction of respiratory acidosis in a 5-year-old child who presented with respiratory failure secondary to severe asthma and treated with theophylline, inhaled albuterol, and parenteral methylprednisolone.
(13) Phenylephrine decreased nasal blood flow and airway resistance while albuterol (salbutamol) did the opposite.
(14) After initial dosing, the mean percentage increases in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) were significantly higher in the tulobuterol-treated patients than in the albuterol-treated patients: at 30 minutes after dosing, the mean increase was 17.2% in the tulobuterol group and 5% in the albuterol group; at one hour, 20.3% and 6.8%.
(15) Inhaled albuterol and cromolyn by spinhaler have both been shown to be effective in the treatment of exercise-induced bronchospasm.
(16) One hundred twenty consecutive patients aged 18 to 65 years with acute asthma unresponsive to a single albuterol treatment.
(17) Albuterol in doses of 10(-10) to 10(-8) M in combination with Ep was also found to produce a significant increase in the numbers of CFU-E in the plasma clot culture system of rabbit bone marrow.
(18) Significant potentiation (synergism) was seen only with albuterol (0.01, 0.1 and 1.0 microM, 10 min) and theophylline (1.0 microM, 10 min).
(19) For this purpose, 15 intubated patients in the process of weaning from mechanical ventilation inhaled the beta 2-agonist bronchodilator albuterol via a spacer device filled with 1 mg of the drug and connected to the endotracheal tube.
(20) Total respiratory resistance and reactance from 4 to 52 Hz were determined by the method of forced pseudorandom noise oscillation in 20 normal male subjects before and after inhalation of 0.200 mg salbutamol (albuterol) and before and after the subjects were equilibrated with 80% He-20% O2.
Bronchial
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(2) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(3) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
(4) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(5) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(6) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(7) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(8) We studied the effect of a 2-hour exposure to 0.6 ppm of ozone on bronchial reactivity in 8 healthy, nonsmoking subjects by measuring the increase in airway resistance (Raw) produced by inhalation of histamine diphosphate aerosol (1.6 per cent, 10 breaths).
(9) Our data indicate that nifedipine decreases bronchial reactivity to methacholine.
(10) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(11) Submaximal contractions of the bronchial muscle evoked by exogenous substance P (2 X 10(-7)M) were less potently inhibited by these drugs than those evoked by exogenous acetylcholine (2 X 10(-6)M).
(12) Rabbits, affected by acute bronchitis, treated orally with the title compounds showed a considerable reduction of the viscosity of the bronchial mucus.
(13) The essentials of standardizations of bronchial provocation tests from the clinical point of view are mentioned.
(14) Twenty-two patients with rhinitis had a negative bronchial challenge, six had a positive.
(15) Autopsy yielded a clinically unrecognised, dedifferentiated adenocarcinoma of the bronchial system.
(16) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
(17) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(18) Among 1813 persons with bronchial carcinoma in the years 1970-1974 475 were treated with surgery; more than 85% being older than 60 years.
(19) Methacholine challenge demonstrated less bronchial hyperreactivity with the combination or cromolyn alone than with terbutaline alone (p less than 0.02).
(20) After pretreatment of pigs with a combination of the H1- and H2-receptor antagonists terfenadine and cimetidine, the vascular and bronchial responses were strongly reduced to both histamine (by greater than 77%) and ascaris (by greater than 58%), but not to capsaicin aerosol.