title: [An analysis of the causes of death in bronchial asthma patients (based on the data from a 13-year prospective observation)].
abstract: The results of the catamnestic study of case reports and records of postmortem examination of 102 patients with bronchial asthma (BA) aged 47 to 88 years who died at a general hospital during 1976-1988 indicate that in the overwhelming majority of cases, there took place death "with asthma" rather than death "from asthma". At the same time the dominant pathology was coronary heart disease (acute coronary failure, myocardial infarction, progressive heart failure associated with atherosclerotic and postinfarction cardiosclerosis). Emphasis is laid on the fact that according to the autopsy data, the rate of the recognized stenosing atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries considerably exceeded the number of cases of coronary heart disease documented clinically (typical angina pectoris of effort, significant macrofocal myocardial infarction). The characteristic features of the group under observation included an unexpectedly frequent combination of BA and malignant neoplasms (24 cases), including lung cancer in 13 of these cases.
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Ivashkin
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Sinopal'nikov
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Sementsov
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Alekseev
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Klochkov
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D002423:Cause of Death; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Analiz prichin smerti bol'nykh bronkhial'noĭ astmoĭ (po dannym 13-letnego retrospektivnogo nabliudeniia).