Journal article
Advances in the Use of Inhalation Provocation Tests in Clinical Evaluation
Abstract
Recent advances in the use of inhalation provocation tests in the clinical evaluation of asthma have been made with methacholine and histamine tests. The tests can be better standardized and the results more accurately interpreted. The ease of stimulation of bronchoconstriction by methacholine and histamine (bronchial responsiveness) relates closely to the presence and the degree of variable airflow obstruction that occurs spontaneously or is …
Authors
Hargreave FE; Ramsdale EH; Sterk PJ; Juniper EF
Journal
Chest, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 32s–35s
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 1985
DOI
10.1378/chest.87.1.32s
ISSN
0012-3692