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Article: Pre-exercise inhalation of nedocromil sodium ineffective in modifying EIAH.
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- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- May 11, 2003
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2003 MAY 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pre-exercise inhalation of nedocromil sodium is ineffective in modifying exercise-induced arterial hypoxemia.
According to published research from the United States, "It has been reported that pulmonary injury (i.e. capillary stress failure) evoked histamine release from airway inflammatory/mast cells contributes to exercise-induced arterial hypoxemia (EIAH) and that pre-exercise inhalation of nedocromil sodium mitigated EIAH in human subjects.
"Because exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage due to capillary stress failure is routinely observed in racehorses, we examined whether nedocromil inhalation would ...