Growing old(er) with postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans
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Growing old(er) with postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans.
Most healthy children shrug off viral respiratory tract infections with little difficulty or assistance and a full recovery is the norm. A small minority, in contrast, are left with serious consequences. Important among these is postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans (pBO) characterised by persistent—and sometimes severe—airway obstruction with functional and radiological evidence of small air...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0040-6376,1468-3296
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206168