%0 Case Reports
%T Perimenstrual asthma: Report of a case with therapeutic intervention of oral prednisone.
%A Lei Z
%A Yanhan D
%A Yi W
%A Shengdao X
%A Weining X
%J J Asthma
%V 55
%N 12
%D 12 2018
%M 29584459
暂无%R 10.1080/02770903.2017.1418886
%X Many asthmatic women of childbearing age experience cyclical aggravation of asthmatic symptoms during the perimenstrual period, or perimenstrual asthma (PMA). PMA is considered to be a difficult-to-treat asthma phenotype; conventional asthma therapies are not always effective against PMA.<BR>We report a case of a 27-year-old female with PMA who had received standard asthma treatment since 2013.<BR>The patient showed a dramatic response to therapeutic intervention of oral prednisone, taken for 7 days prior to menstruation each month, in a dose-dependent manner.<BR>Premenstrual treatment with oral prednisone may be a successful new direction for the treatment of PMA, a troublesome type of asthma.