Background: Asthma is a serious global health problem that often and adversely affects children. Between 20 30% of children in the pediatric population experience sleep problems. The responsibilities providing nocturnal care stress directly tied to illness affect caregiver patterns similar way how chronic may have direct impact on child's sleep. Objective: To examine relationship between an ast...

difficult to treat asthma is an asthma syndrome that brings in our mind other differentials. mediastinal masses are not common findings, but are important variables. bronchogenic cyst is a congenital anomaly of the foregut that is typically found in the mediastinum and diagnosed accidentally. we present a 4-year-old girl with allergic asthma that began at 8-months of age and finally a bronchoge...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Increased serum levels of eotaxin are related to the severity of asthma in adults. There are limited data on the effects of oral corticosteroids and inhaled corticosteroid therapy on serum levels of eotaxin and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) and peripheral blood eosinophil counts (ECs) in pediatric asthma patients. We investigated prospectively the changes in eotaxin a...

OBJECTIVE Inhaler technique comprises a set of procedures for drug delivery to the respiratory system. The oral inhalation of medications is the first-line treatment for lung diseases. Using the proper inhaler technique ensures sufficient drug deposition in the distal airways, optimizing therapeutic effects and reducing side effects. The purposes of this study were to assess inhaler technique i...

The 2007 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute expert panel asthma guidelines recommend that spirometry be part of routine asthma diagnosis and monitoring of therapy, yet only 35% of pediatric practices use spirometry for patients with asthma. Pediatricians should be aware that routine office spirometry is feasible, practical, and important for optimizing care for children with respiratory s...

OBJECTIVES To describe pediatric severe asthma care, complications, and outcomes to plan for future prospective studies by the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING : Pediatric intensive care units in the United States that submit administrative data to the Pediatric Health Information System. PATIENTS Children 1-18 yrs old trea...

OBJECTIVE National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute clinical practice guidelines strongly recommend that health professionals educate children with asthma and their caregivers about self-management. We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the effects of pediatric asthma education on hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and urgent physician visits for asthma. PATIENTS AND METHODS In...

Background: It has been suggested that Helicobacter pylori infection might reduce the risk of atopic conditions, such as asthma, in childhood. This risk reduction could relate to the “hygiene hypothesis” which proposes an association between childhood exposure to microbes and risk of atopy. Objectives: To examine the association between Hp infection and childhood acquired asthma in Sardinia. Pa...

• Objective: To determine the impact of a monthly peer-comparison report on pediatric residents’ adherence to asthma guidelines. • Design: Preand post-intervention study. • Participants and setting: 21 residents working in a pediatric clinic in a military teaching hospital in Hawaii. • Methods: Residents were trained on the use of asthma guidelines and an ambulatory pathway. Guideline adherence...

objective: childhood infectious diseases are one of the most known environmental pathogenic causes of childhood asthma. the high prevalence of both helicobacter pylori infection and asthma in our country prompted us to assess anyprobable as- sociation between them in childhood. methods: this cross-sectional study recruited 196 children aged 6 to 12 years old comprising 98 asthmatic (case group)...