Acute bronchiolitis in children – Clinical features and evolution
March 31, 2010
| Abstract Title: | Acute bronchiolitis in children – Clinical features and evolution |
| Authors: | Dorin Lazar, Simona Dumitra, Liana Precup, Viorica Leordean, Roberto Teru |
| Affiliation: | “Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad, Romania |
| Abstract text: | Bronchiolitis is an infection of the small bronchi, transport air into the lungs. It is quite common in children and can cause severe respiratory manifestations. The most common symptoms are cough, rhinorrhea (the nose) and fever. In a few days after the child manifests symptoms shallow breathing or breathing accompanied by wheezing. The authors proposed to put forth the frequency of replace and recurrence in the cases of acute bronchiolitis to study the forms of clinical seriousness and the duration in time of the disease as well as to estimate the implications of the biological handicap in the evolution of the disease. The study was made during a three-year period of time on 500 children from six months old to two years old hospitalized with Pediatrics Clinic of Arad. The results of the study point out the following percentage: 6.3% relapse and 4.6% recurrence. The serious forms of bronchiolitis with acute breathing insufficiency occurred in 47.6% cases and the duration of the disease was under 14 days in 66.8% of the cases. As far as the biological handicap is concerned anemia is most frequently associated with bronchiolitis and paratrophic and atopic patients the illness has a prolonged evolution in most of the cases. |
| Keywords: | acute bronchiolitis, children, clinical features, evolution |
| Presentation type: | Oral |
| Correspondence: | no. 1-3 Spitalului Sq., Arad, Romania |
| Email: | lazardorin@ymail.com |
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