Thunderstorm asthmaallergic asthmarhinitisryegrassRATIONALE: On November 21, 2016 in Australia, a major thunderstorm-asthma epidemic struck Melbourne with an unprecedented number of emergency presentations, hospital admissions and fatalities. OBJECTIVES: We identified affected patients who presented to The ...
3Department of Immunology and Allergy, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, 3050, Australia; 4Pulmonary Division, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Abstract: Thunderstorm-triggered asthma (TA) is the occurrence of acute asthma attacks immediately following ...
Thunderstorm asthma is relatively a rare phenomenon. However, it sharply increases the demand for medical resources resulting in increased prehospital deaths (Andrew et al., 2017). During the 2016 outbreak of thunderstorm asthma in Melbourne, for example, several out-of-hospital deaths were reported...
Studies of previous Melbourne thunderstorm asthma eventsfavoured grass pollen as the cause, rather than other possible triggers such as dust particles. Elsewhere, fungal spores have beenimplicated. Another aspect of these events is thatgenerally around a third of the affected peoplehave no previous ex...
Sutherland Michael FPortelli Emma LeCollins Allison LRahman Muhammad AzizMcDonald Christine FMed J AustSutherland MF, Portelli EL, Collins AL, Rahman MA, McDonald CF. Patients with thunderstorm asthma or severe asthma in Melbourne: a comparison. Med J Aust 2017; 207: 434-35....