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What Is an Asthma Attack?

By Jameson Kowalczyk

Medically reviewed in October 2019

Watch this video with pulmonologist Harish Murthy, MD, and learn about the constriction of the airways that occurs during an asthma attack, and how it results in asthma’s most distressing symptom—the inability to breath.

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