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Bronchial asthma (a chronic respiratory disease manifested as difficulty breathing due to the narrowing of bronchial passageways)

disease, medical condition, cause of death, respiratory disease, medical concept, cause, Respiratory conditions

Discovered: 450 BC
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma
Symptoms: ▶
Cardiac arrest, Dyspnea, pectus carinatum, wheeze, Cardiac arrest, …
Chest hyperinflation, Pulsus paradoxus, Cough, short stature, Chest expansion poor, Cyanosis, Bronchospasm, Chest Tightness, Chest Tightness, Chest Tightness, Nocturnal Cough, Nocturnal Cough, Nocturnal Cough, Nocturnal Cough, Nocturnal Cough, Nocturnal Cough, Nocturnal Cough
ICD Code: "493", "J45."
Class: ▶
respiratory disease, medical condition, Respiratory conditions, medical concept, cause, …
cause of death, disease
Killed: ▶
Martin Van Buren, Teresa Teng, Christiaan Barnard, Krissy Taylor, Robert Donat, …
Charlotte Coleman, Johnny PayCheck, Neil Hamilton, Kamehameha IV, James Gleason, David Dacko, Ron Goodwin, John Junkin, Martita Hunt, Thomas Nelson, Arthur Fremantle, Ned Young, Mary Dimmick Harrison, Ernest Nathan Morial, Gilbert Harding, Ryan Davies, Pauline Frederick, Tim Cole, Neil Francis Hawkins, Harold Dow, Hugo Haas, Amadeo Vives, Antonio Tomasulo, Abdallah al-Ghalib, Hayashi Fubo, Chris Barnard, Andrew Harwood, Soraya Serajeddini, Hilary Saint George Saunders, Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, Jarvis Williams, George Pirie, Hotep Idris Galeta, George Freeman, Piet Alexander Tallo, Gumbay Piang, Richard Green, Kagaku Murakami, Bernard Marszałek, Daniel Featley, Arthur Damude, Saneeya Hussain
Side Effect of: Phentermine
Cause of: ▶
pneumothorax, Cough, Pulsus paradoxus, Respiratory failure, wheeze, …
pectus carinatum, eosinophilia, short stature, Chest expansion poor, Chest hyperinflation, Cardiac arrest
Contra Indication of: aspirin, Propranolol, Atenolol
Related Websites: ▶
http://eng.mapofmedicine.com/evidence/map/acute_asthma1.html, http://www.childhoodasthma.co.uk, http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/asthma/Pages/Introduction.aspx, http://www.cks.nhs.uk/asthma, http://www.ginasthma.org, …
http://topnews.us/content/27582-asthma-inhalers-kids-may-not-offer-much-help, http://www.nationalasthma.org.au/cms/index.php, http://www.asthmahelpline.com, http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=1200, http://www.ourasthma.com, http://www.segal.org/asthma, http://www.asthmacure.com, http://tauac.typepad.com/ac/2007/03/tau_researchers.html, http://www.asthma.ge/links.htm, http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/CSEM/asthma, http://www.asthmaqld.org.au, http://www.asthma.org.uk, http://www.healthination.com/asthma.php, http://www.ginasthma.com, http://www.asthmaclinicaltrials.org, http://www.aafa.org, http://www.aaaai.org, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/asthma.html, http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/lung/index.htm#asthma, http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/lung/index.htm#asthma, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs307/en, http://www.who.int/respiratory/asthma/en
Wordnet Synset ID: "114145911"
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000059d13"
Diseases DB id: "1006"
Diseaseome URI: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/diseasome/resource/diseases/116
OpenCyc ID: "Mx4rwP1iIJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
Sider URI: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/sider/resource/side_effects/C0004096
TCM GeneDIT URI: http://purl.org/net/tcm/tcm.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/id/disease/Asthma
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Asthma
Mesh ID: "D001249"
Associated Conditions: eosinophilic pneumonia
Rare Terms: ▶
"bronchial spasms", "asthmatics", "ashtma", "astma", "first aid for asthma", …
"athsma", "anhelitus"
Cause: ▶
Adenosine, Cotinine, Adenosine phosphosulfate, Cholesteryl, Histamine, …
Mannitol, Hippuric acid
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/0c78m"

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