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  • Title: Assessment of tachyphylaxis following prolonged therapy of asthma with inhaled albuterol aerosol.
    Author: Repsher LH, Anderson JA, Bush RK, Falliers CJ, Kass I, Kemp JP, Reed C, Siegel S, Webb DR.
    Journal: Chest; 1984 Jan; 85(1):34-8. PubMed ID: 6360573.
    Abstract:
    Controversy exists concerning possible tachyphylaxis of the acute bronchodilating effect of albuterol, especially with regard to the duration of its acute bronchodilating action. We evaluated 140 patients with bronchial asthma in a prospective double-blind controlled study of possible tachyphylaxis to albuterol aerosol as compared to isoproterenol aerosol. We demonstrated statistically significant tachyphylaxis with regard to duration of acute bronchodilating effect. We believe that this tachyphylaxis is not clinically significant because there was no tachyphylaxis with regard to peak bronchodilating effect and because the duration of bronchodilating effect remains significantly greater, both quantitatively and statistically, when compared to isoproterenol aerosol. Moreover, it appeared that most of the tachyphylaxis was present at four weeks of therapy. There was a small increment of tachyphylaxis after eight weeks of therapy, but no further increase in tachyphylaxis was demonstrated after 13 weeks of inhaled albuterol therapy. We therefore feel that clinically significant tachyphylaxis to inhaled albuterol aerosol must be quite unusual and that chronic therapy with inhaled albuterol aerosol is probably both safe and efficacious for bronchospastic disorders.
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