Özyiğit Leyla Pur, Erer Ayşen, Okumuş Gülfer, Çağatay Tülin, Kıyan Esen, Erkan Feyza
Department of Allergy and Immunology, Koç University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Department of Chest Diseases, İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Turk Thorac J. 2016 Apr;17(2):82-83. doi: 10.5578/ttj.17.2.017. Epub 2016 Apr 1.
Reactive airway dysfunction syndrome (RADS) is a variant of irritant-induced asthma that develops in subjects without prior bronchoobstructive disease, following high-level exposure to nonimmunogenic irritants. Recommended maintenance treatment for RADS is not different from asthma. But in some cases, severe symptoms may persist despite the bronchodilators and corticosteroids. We describe the first case of a patient with RADS, unresponsive to all medical agents, who was successfully treated with lidocaine.