SAN DIEGO — A reimagined approach to uncontrolled severe asthma is needed amid poor diagnosis and management trends, according to Samuel Louie, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Davis.
Speaking at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Louie said it is “very clear from our experience and expertise that asthma is not a single disease: it’s a syndrome.”
“Because of that, we have to recognize the challenges to the patient as well as to ourselves and the practice of medicine,” he said.
Louie pointed out severe asthma is underdiagnosed and