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OBJECTIVE: To examine temporal trend in the national incidence of bronchiolitis hospitalizations, use of mechanical ventilation, and hospital charges between 2000 and 2009. METHODS:We performed a serial, cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative sample of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis. The Kids Inpatient Database was used to identify children ,2 years of age with bronch...

• Objective: To review the diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis. • Methods: Qualitative review of the literature. • Results: Bronchiolitis is a common disease that affects most children under 2 years of age. The most common etiology is respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The diagnosis is usually clinical, although rapid screening tests are available that can assist with early iden...

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is a significant cause of acute morbidity in the first 12 months of life and some infants with bronchiolitis are admitted to hospital. No studies have yet devised a scoring system to predict admission for routine use in the emergency department. AIM To identify clinical predictors of hospital admission in infants with acute bronchiolitis and to devise a simple clinica...

Description of the Clinical Course and Severity Score Progression in Critically Ill Children with Acute Bronchiolitis on High-Flow Nasal Cannula Support

In the present report, we describe an unusual presentation of post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans accompanied by pulmonary hemosiderosis in a nine-year-old boy with persistent respiratory symptoms subsequent to an episode of acute bronchiolitis occurring at the age of seven months. After the episode, the persistent respiratory symptoms worsened significantly, and, by the age of seven, the ...

We agree with M. Korppi and co-workers that some controversies remain in defining bronchiolitis. The North American definition of bronchiolitis includes the first episode of acute viral wheeze occurring in infants ,2 yrs of age [3], thus probably overlapping early asthma manifestations. Defining bronchiolitis according to strict clinical criteria that exclude wheeze ensured the availability of ...

  Background   Bronchiolitis, which is the most common infection of the lower respiratory tract among infants, is characterized by acute inflammation, edema, increased mucosal production, and bronchospasm. We aimed to investigate the effects of saline usage with different concentrations and salbutamol on the treatment.   Materi...

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is a common acute respiratory infectious condition, with a high prevalence worldwide. It is a clinically diagnosed syndrome, manifested by tachypnoea (rapid breathing), with crackles or wheeze in young children. In the acute phase of bronchiolitis (< 14 days), antibiotics have only been recommended when a secondary bacterial infection is suspected. Although bronchioliti...

Severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has been hypothesised to be a risk factor for the development of allergy and asthma, but epidemiological studies in older children have been inconclusive. The current study hypothesises that the effect of RSV bronchiolitis might be most prominent during the first year after bronchiolitis. Forty-two infants had experienced RSV bronchiolitis seve...