[The outpatient corticosteroid therapy of bronchial asthma patients].

The author reports his three-year experience of treatment of 17 hormone-dependent patients with bronchial asthma. It was established that intake of the entire 24-hour dose of corticosteroids agents during the night and morning hours in minimal maintenance doses with correction of the dosage depending on the patient's feelings an effective variant of long-term hormone therapy of bronchial asthma.