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  2. Bronchiolitis - Wikipedia

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    Corticosteroids, although useful in other respiratory disease such as asthma and croup, have no proven benefit in bronchiolitis treatment and are not advised. [9] [8] [12] [57] [58] Additionally, corticosteroid therapy in children with bronchiolitis may prolong viral shedding and transmissibility. [9] The overall safety of corticosteroids is ...

  3. Bronchiolitis obliterans - Wikipedia

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    In contrast with another cause of bronchiolitis obliterans in children, Steven's Johnson's syndrome, post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans tends to be a chronic but non-progressive disease. [31] The disease can have varying impact on children and their quality of life, which has been studied by lung function tests, as well as their exercise ...

  4. How Worried Should We Be About the HMPV Virus? - AOL

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    "In younger children or children with compromised immune systems it can sometimes cause bronchiolitis, which is a lower respiratory tract infection that may require a patient to be seen in the ...

  5. Respiratory tract infection - Wikipedia

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    It is unclear if rapid viral testing in the emergency department for children with acute febrile respiratory infections reduces the rates of antibiotic use, blood testing, or urine testing. [11] The relative risk reduction of chest x-ray utilization in children screened with rapid viral testing is 77% compared with controls. [ 11 ]

  6. What is HMPV? Here's what you need to know as virus cases ...

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    In the United States, HMPV cases have seen an increase since November, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Dec. 28, 1.94% of weekly tests returned positive ...

  7. Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    The American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society hold that "cryptogenic organizing pneumonia" is the preferred clinical term for this disease for multiple reasons: [6] [7] Avoid confusion with bronchiolitis obliterans, which may not be visualized in every case of this disease. Avoid confusion with constrictive bronchiolitis

  8. Walking pneumonia, acute bronchitis cases are on the rise ...

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    The percentage of children ages 2-4 diagnosed with a respiratory illness-bacteria grew from 1% to 7.2% between March 31 and Oct. 5, the CDC reported. Walking pneumonia, acute bronchitis cases are ...

  9. Respiratory bronchiolitis - Wikipedia

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    Respiratory bronchiolitis is a lung disease associated with tobacco smoking. [1] In pathology, it is defined by the presence of " smoker's macrophages ". [ 1 ] When manifesting significant clinical symptoms it is referred to as respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD).