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Asthma and Pseudo-Asthma

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Asthma includes several different phenotypic disorders. The complexity of defining asthma is addressed. There is potential for both under- and overdiagnosis of asthma. Respiratory disorders frequently misdiagnosed as asthma, essentially pseudo-asthmas, need to be recognized and not treated as asthma.

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  1. Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Division, Pediatric Department, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Hospital, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    Miles Weinberger MD

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Massoud Mahmoudi

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Weinberger, M. (2016). Asthma and Pseudo-Asthma. In: Mahmoudi, M. (eds) Allergy and Asthma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30835-7_19

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