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Critical Care February 2002 Vol 6 No 1 Papiris et al. Review Clinical review: Severe asthma Spyros Papiris, Anastasia Kotanidou, Katerina Malagari and Charis Roussos Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Services, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece Correspondence: Spyros A Papiris, papiris@otenet.gr Published online: 22 November 2001 Critical Care 2002, 6:30-44 ? 2002 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract Severe asthma, although difficult to define, includes all cases of difficult/therapy-resista