OBJECTIVE Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis is a common cause of hospitalizations in children and has been increasingly identified as a risk factor in the development of asthma. Little is known about what determines the severity of RSV bronchiolitis, which may be helpful in the initial assessment of these children. DESIGN We evaluated a variety of environmental and host factors ...

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is a serious, potentially life-threatening respiratory illness commonly affecting young babies. It is most often caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). The diagnosis is usually made on clinical grounds (especially tachypnoea and wheezing in a child less than two years of age). Antibiotics are not recommended for bronchiolitis unless there is concern about complica...

We describe a patient who developed fatal bronchiolitis obliterans following gold therapy and review the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and bronchiolitis.

background: theophylline may reverse steroid resistance and decrease inflammation in patients with chronic pulmonary disease and sulfur mustard (sm) induced bronchiolitis. this study was designed to assess the effects of low-dose theophylline on improvement of pulmonary function tests (pfts) of sm exposed patients.methods: in this comparative observational study, a group of sm-exposed victims d...

Outcome after bronchiolitis depends on disease definition Sigurs et al recently published their 18-year prospective controlled follow-up study of 47 subjects hospitalised for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis at age<12 months. In the cohort the prevalence of wheezing and asthma was higher than in population-based controls at 3, 7 and 13 years of age. Asthma was present, depending ...

Following the analysis of 69 cases, author concludes that diagnostic and therapeutic approach to bronchiolitis is still far from international guidelines.

In order to analyse trends in the bronchiolitis hospitalisations in the Netherlands from 1991 to 1999 for children aged 0-4 years, the national number of bronchiolitis hospitalisations were compared with those of asthma and pneumonia hospitalisations of the same age group. The number of bronchiolitis hospitalisations significantly increased, whereas the number of asthma and pneumonia hospitalis...

BACKGROUND The fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) has been suggested as a non-invasive marker of eosinophilic inflammation in asthma, but lately rather as a biomarker of atopy than of asthma itself. Asthma after bronchiolitis is common up to early adolescence, but the inflammation and pathophysiology may differ from other phenotypes of childhood asthma. We aimed to assess if FeNO was diffe...

BACKGROUND Targets for intervention are required for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis, a common disease during infancy for which no effective treatment exists. Clinical and genetic studies indicate that IL1RL1 plays an important role in the development and exacerbations of asthma. Human IL1RL1 encodes three isoforms, including soluble IL1RL1-a, that can influence IL33 signalling ...

OBJECTIVE To present the epidemiological features of bronchiolitis in a one-year period in patients of Pediatric Clinic, Clinical Centre of Sarajevo University. INTRODUCTION Bronchiolitis is the most common respiratory infection of early infant age. The disease is one the most common reason for hospitalization of children under the age of six months. The disease is characterized by occurrence...