Montelukast in clinical practice – case reports Case report
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Montelukast is currently the most widely used therapeutic agent interfering with the synthesis and action of leukotrienes. Particular benefits from including montelukast in therapy may be found in patients with coexisting asthma and allergic rhinitis, patients with uncontrolled asthma with frequent infectious exacerbations, smoking, with low compliance (adherence to recommendations), those subjects with difficulties in using inhalers, exercise-induced asthma, or in the case of coexisting asthma, chronic sinusitis with nasal polyps and hypersensitivity to acetylsalicylic acid and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The above recommendations are in line with the trends of personalized medicine, where the selection of optimal pharmacotherapy in a patient diagnosed with bronchial asthma depends on the phenotype/endotype of the disease, comorbidities and disease control. The paper below presents clinical cases of the use of montelukast in patients with bronchial asthma in everyday clinical practice.
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