The relationship of meteorological conditions to the epidemic activity of respiratory syncytial virus.

abstract：:Cough is a common presenting symptom to paediatricians and paediatric respiratory physicians. The causes of chronic cough in childhood are significantly different from those in adults, and a different approach to diagnosis and management is needed. In most cases cause can be identified or a satisfactory label given. T...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Massie J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic interaction between the heart and lungs leads to a degree of respiratory co-morbidity including both restrictive and obstructive airway abnormalities, which may be overlooked in children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The improving imaging techniques of the heart, both foetal and post-natal co...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Fitzgerald DA,Sherwood M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a heterogeneous disease and it is therefore unrealistic to expect that inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) would be appropriate first line preventer therapy for all children with asthma. There is good theoretical and clinical trial evidence demonstrating that leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) are more effec...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： van Asperen PP

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese adolescents, particularly those with extreme obesity (body mass index > or =40 kg/m(2)), are developing serious medical complications at an unexpectedly high rate. As non-operative approaches to weight loss have shown less than optimal results, paediatric patients are increasingly seeking bariatric surgical inte...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Kalra M,Inge T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of asthma among children is high in Australia compared with many other countries. Recent data show that 14-16% of children report a diagnosis of asthma that remains a problem. Boys, children under the age of 5 years and urban indigenous children experience a greater burden of asthma than other children. Mor...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Poulos LM,Toelle BG,Marks GB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis is a common viral disease that significantly affects infants less than 12 months of age. The purpose of this review is to present a review of the current knowledge of the uses of respiratory support in the management of infants with bronchiolitis presenting to hospital. We electronically searched MEDLINE...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Franklin D,Fraser JF,Schibler A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis is a common disease in infancy, mostly due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Rhinovirus. In addition to acute infection, viral bronchiolitis is responsible for sequelae including recurrent wheezing and asthma. The analysis of the viral characteristics and of the pathogenesis of the infection shows diffe...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Vandini S,Calamelli E,Faldella G,Lanari M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis remains controversial because there is still little agreement that prophylactic interventions provide substantial long-term benefits. In such situations, where there are some medical benefits and the costs are not prohibitive, it is important to consider the psychosocial implicati...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Parsons EP,Bradley DM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric donation after circulatory death (pDCD) is an established pathway for organ donation. It remains, however, a relatively rare event worldwide, and most clinicians outside of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are unfamiliar with it. The goal of this review is to introduce the processes and concepts of p...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Weiss MJ,Sherry W,Hornby L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood pulmonary TB (PTB) is under diagnosed, in part due to difficulties in obtaining microbiological confirmation. However, given the poor specificity of clinical diagnosis, microbiological confirmation and drug susceptibility testing is important in guiding appropriate therapy especially in the context of drug r...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Nicol MP,Zar HJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many important respiratory manifestations of endocrine and metabolic diseases in children. Acute and chronic pulmonary infections are the most common respiratory abnormalities in patients with diabetes mellitus, although cardiogenic and non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema are also possible. Pseudohypoaldosteron...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Milla CE,Zirbes J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is common and its prevalence is expected to increase with the current obesity epidemic. If left untreated, it is associated with important morbidity such as growth failure, neurocognitive impairment, systemic and pulmonary hypertension, and endothelial dysfunction. Recent research ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Tapia IE,Marcus CL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social Robots are used in different contexts and, in healthcare, they are better known as Socially Assistive Robots. In the context of asthma, the use of Socially Assistive Robots has the potential to increase motivation and engagement to treatment. Other positive roles proposed for Socially Assistive Robots are to pr...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Ferrante G,Vitale G,Licari A,Montalbano L,Pilato G,Infantino I,Augello A,La Grutta S

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Individually, congenital abnormalities of the lung are rare but collectively they form an important group of conditions. The range of malformations is broad and the clinical impact is very variable, depending on the degree of malformation. This article groups these conditions under their traditional headings and consi...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Wallis C

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic diseases are a public health problem in industrialized countries due to the increasing number of allergies related to Western lifestyle. The multiplicity of organs affected by allergy (skin (atopic dermatitis), airway epithelium (respiratory allergy), and digestive tract (food allergy)) worsens the prognosis ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Just J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since preschool wheezing is the common expression of several heterogeneous disorders, identification of children at risk for persistent asthma is particularly challenging. To date, efforts to predict the outcome of preschool wheeze have mainly relied on predictive rules consisting of simple clinical and laboratory par...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Fouzas S,Brand PL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems undergoes rapid maturation during infancy. Sleep is at a lifetime maximum during this period and has a marked influence on cardiorespiratory function. The mechanisms leading to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) may include a failure in the neural integration of t...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Horne RS,Parslow PM,Harding R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of personalised medicine is likely to revolutionise the treatment of adult obstructive sleep apnoea as a result of recent advances in the understanding of disease heterogeneity by identifying clinical phenotypes, pathophysiological endotypes, biomarkers and treatable traits. Children with the condition sho...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Siriwardhana LS,Nixon GM,Horne RSC,Edwards BA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are hardly any controlled studies in paediatric tracheostomy care; instead, most established standards, procedures and details have been elaborated at the bedside by trial and error. Once the appropriate tube is chosen, tube care consists of tube change, fixation, management of secretions, humidification of insp...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Oberwaldner B,Eber E

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term atelectasis describes a state of collapsed and non-aerated region of the lung parenchyma, which is otherwise normal. This pathological condition is usually associated with several pulmonary and chest disorders and represents a manifestation of the underlying disease, not a disease per se. Atelectasis may occu...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Peroni DG,Boner AL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired pneumonia remains a common and serious illness, which affects children of all age groups. The spectrum of causative organisms is wide and it differs according to the age of the patients. With the advent of new and improved diagnostic techniques our understanding of the aetiology of the disease has b...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Sinaniotis CA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal disease is relatively rare in cystic fibrosis even though the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) protein is expressed in abundance in the kidney. Aberrant CFTR expression probably explains the subtle abnormalities in renal concentrating and diluting ability described in cystic fibrosis and possibly t...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Stephens SE,Rigden SP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foreign body aspiration is a common accident in children and represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis of this condition demands a high degree of suspicion since physical examination and basic radiology exams have low sensitivity. It is more frequent in children younger than 3 years of age, p...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Lima JA,Fischer GB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant improvement in the survival of patients with CF has been achieved in the last decades. The improved clinical status of the patients is mainly the result of a better understanding of the natural course of infection and inflammation in CF that has led to the implementation of strategies that increase the lif...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Kerem E

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of interstitial lung disease in children depends on the nature of the underlying pathology. In approximately 50% of cases a specific aetiology can be found such as: chronic viral infection, an auto-immune process, sarcoidosis or alveolar proteinosis. In the remainder, the process is idiopathic and the pa...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Dinwiddie R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article will review traditional and newer microbiological techniques for the diagnosis of mycobacterial respiratory infections. It will concentrate on the diagnosis of infections due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main mycobacterium causing respiratory infections of clinical and public health importance. The ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Andresen D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the first year of life and particularly the first 6 months autonomic control of the cardio-respiratory system is still undergoing maturation and infants are at risk of cardio-respiratory instability. These instabilities are most marked during sleep, which is important as infants spend the majority of each 24 ho...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Horne RS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is most frequent chronic disease in childhood. Childhood asthma frequently persists to adulthood and the available evidence suggests that the severity of childhood asthma predicts the severity of asthma in the adulthood. To prevent long term remodeling of the airways and improve prognosis, early diagnosis and t...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Pohunek P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being the most widely used and vital therapy in neonatology, optimal strategies for the use of oxygen in preterm infants remain controversial. Achieving the balance between attaining adequate tissue oxygenation and avoiding oxygen toxicity is challenging. There remains a paucity of clear evidence based guidanc...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Cherian S,Morris I,Evans J,Kotecha S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of techniques available to assess respiratory muscles weakness has greatly expanded over recent years. Respiratory muscle tests can be divided into non-invasive tests, such as lung function parameters, maximal static pressures and sniff nasal pressure and invasive tests, such as transdiaphragmatic pressures ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Fauroux B

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00