Asthma

This book will be published in June 2025. It will be available to pre-order in April 2025.

Edited by David J. Jackson, Vanessa McDonald and Ian Pavord

Contents list (subject to change)
1. Innate and adaptive immune responses in asthma
2. Mechanisms of asthma exacerbations
3. Airway hyperreponsiveness
4. Airways remodelling and small airways dysfunction in asthma
5. Mucus plugging
6. The airway microbiome in asthma
7. Impact of air pollution in asthma
8. Diagnosing asthma in adults
9. Diagnosing asthma in children
10. Type 2 biomarkers and assessment of risk
11. Differentiating uncontrolled from severe asthma
12. Assessment of medication adherence
13. Learnings from asthma fatalities
14. Imaging in asthma
15. The role of telemedicine and artificial intelligence
16. Biomarker vs symptom guided therapy
17. Anti-inflammatory reliever therapy
18. Biologic therapies in asthma
19. Options in the absence of T2 inflammation
20. Allergen immunotherapy in asthma
21. Steroid stewardship in asthma
22. Nasal polyposis and AERD
23. Obesity
24. Co-morbid COPD
25. ABPA
26. EGPA
27. Laryngeal dysfunction
28. Breathing pattern disorder
29. Psychological and behavioural disorders
30. Asthma in pregnancy
31. Occupational asthma

Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-190-0
eISBN: 978-1-84984-191-7
EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84984-192-4