en ریه Pulmonology گزارش مورد case report <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">A 7.5-year-old male with mild intermittent asthma presented with a complaint of sudden shortness of breath and subsequently cyanosis that led to respiratory arrest.<br> Although Asthma is the most prevalent chronic respiratory disease globally, it is affecting children through all ages (1). This condition is described as a chronic inflammatory airway disease. However, there are several phenotypes of this chronic inflammatory that are seen among the pediatric population (2).<br> According to guidelines, asthma has four levels of mild intermittent, mild persistent , moderate persistent , severe persistent that the classification of which are based on the severity of symptoms, spirometry parameters including forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and peak expiratory flow(PEF)(3).<br> At each level the patients can experience the acute asthma exacerbation which is defined as the respiratory distress that does not respond to outpatients&rsquo; treatments either with or without history of corticosteroid therapy. Each episode of this condition can cause the respiratory failure. Therefore, acute asthma is defined as a medical emergency in pediatric population which is leading to nearly half of millions of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) hospitalizations annually (4-6)<br> In this study, we reported a case of mild intermittent asthma with rapid decompensation to respiratory arrest.</span></span></div> Near fatal asthma, Rescue therapy 0 0 http://ijca.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-65-6&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ahmad Bahrami 10031947532846001080 10031947532846001080 No Behzad Haghighi Aski 10031947532846001081 10031947532846001081 No Ali Manifi Anari 10031947532846001082 10031947532846001082 No Zeinab Zohrevandi z.zohrevandi@me.com 10031947532846001083 10031947532846001083 Yes sara torabi 10031947532846001084 10031947532846001084 No