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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 157, Number 2, February 1998, 403-409

Airway Inflammation in Mild Intermittent and in Persistent Asthma

ANTONIO M. VIGNOLA, PASCAL CHANEZ, ALISON M. CAMPBELL, FRANÇOISE SOUQUES, BERNARD LEBEL, INGRID ENANDER, and JEAN BOUSQUET

INSERM U 454 and Service des Maladies Respiratoires, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France; Istituto di Fisiopatologia Respiratoria, CNR, Palermo, Italy; and Pharmacia Diagnostics, AB, Uppsala, Sweden

The severity of asthma can be graded from mild intermittent to severe persistent. Airway inflammation is a feature of persistent asthma. We compared several markers of inflammation in mucosal biopsies and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL fluid) from 12 healthy control subjects, 24 patients with intermittent asthma, and 18 patients with mild-to-moderate persistent asthma. Epithelial shedding, eosinophil (EG2-positive cells), and activated T-cell (UCHL1) counts in biopsies, and ECP levels in BAL fluids were significantly increased in patients with intermittent asthma by comparison with control subjects and this increase was significantly greater for patients with persistent asthma. Alveolar macrophage activation (percentage of hypodense cells) and the thickness of the basement membrane were significantly increased in asthmatic subjects as compared with controls but there was no difference between the two asthmatic groups. Hyaluronic acid levels in BAL fluids were significantly increased in patients with persistent asthma by comparison with control subjects and patients with intermittent asthma. Mast cell numbers (toluidine blue) in biopsies and histamine or levels in BAL fluids were similar in the three groups. This study shows that airways inflammation is present in patients with intermittent asthma but to a lesser extent than in patients with persistent asthma.




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