В поисках истины: что такое бронхиальная астма?

Authors of this article have been studying clinical and pathogenic features of bronchial asthma for about 40 years. As a result, 10 clinicopathological variants of asthma have been described. This classification is based on a type of the airway inflammation, age at the disease onset, triggers and risk factors, presence of upper airway disease, endocrine and immune pathology, psychological characteristics of the patients, clinical features and course of asthma. An algorithm of diagnosis has been developed for each clinicopathological variant. Recently, according to a tendency to describe different asthma phenotypes the authors propose the term “clinicopathological phenotypes of asthma” in order to bring Russian terminology in line with international consensuses.