Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: September | Volume: 7 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 438-442
Updated Diagnosis and Management of Adult Asthma in Coronavirus Disease-19 Cases
Marianto1, Dian Daniella2, Marco Raharja3
1Sumatera Utara University, Faculty of Medicine, Medan, Indonesia
2Atmajaya Catholic University, Faculty of Medicine, Jakarta, Indonesia
3Kristen Krida Wacana University, Faculty of Medicine, Jakarta, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Marianto
ABSTRACT
Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases found in primary and emergency care worldwide. Since novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) became pandemic, the diagnosis and management of asthma was affected. Assessment of asthma is a real challenge due to the overlapped respiratory symptoms among COVID-19, asthma in early stages, and other upper respiratory tract infections. Moreover, this pandemic encouraged minimal face-to-face interaction unless urgent or emergency. There is also arising controversy whether asthma will develop more severe symptoms of COVID-19. Moreover, the use of corticosteroid as mainstay therapy in asthma with COVID-19 need to be reviewed. In this article, we will discuss about the updated assessment and management of asthma in COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords: management, asthma, exacerbations, COVID-19
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