Article: Reports from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital add new data to research in asthma.

Researchers detail in 'Time to death and mast cell degranulation in fatal asthma,' new data in asthma. According to recent research from Nedlands, Australia, "Attacks of fatal asthma have been shown to be either of short duration or long duration and associated with differing degrees of smooth muscle contraction, luminal mucus deposition and ratios of eosinophils to neutrophils in the airway wall. We hypothesized that this bimodal distribution might be related to airway mast cell degranulation."

"Airway sections from cases of fatal asthma in the second Victorian asthma mortality study and from cases coming to coronial autopsy in Perth were examined. ...

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