Authors
Eugenio Baraldi, Marcello Lanari, Paolo Manzoni, Giovanni A Rossi, Silvia Vandini, Alessandro Rimini, Costantino Romagnoli, Pierluigi Colonna, Andrea Biondi, Paolo Biban, Giampietro Chiamenti, Roberto Bernardini, Marina Picca, Marco Cappa, Giuseppe Magazzù, Carlo Catassi, Antonio Francesco Urbino, Luigi Memo, Gianpaolo Donzelli, Carlo Minetti, Francesco Paravati, Giuseppe Di Mauro, Filippo Festini, Susanna Esposito, Giovanni Corsello
Publication date
2014/12
Source
Italian journal of pediatrics
Volume
40
Pages
1-13
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Acute bronchiolitis is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection and hospitalization in children less than 1 year of age worldwide. It is usually a mild disease, but some children may develop severe symptoms, requiring hospital admission and ventilatory support in the ICU. Infants with pre-existing risk factors (prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, congenital heart diseases and immunodeficiency) may be predisposed to a severe form of the disease.
Clinical diagnosis of bronchiolitis is manly based on medical history and physical examination (rhinorrhea, cough, crackles, wheezing and signs of respiratory distress). Etiological diagnosis, with antigen or genome detection to identify viruses involved, may have a role in reducing hospital transmission of the infection.
Criteria for hospitalization include low oxygen saturation (<90-92%), moderate-to-severe respiratory distress …
Scholar articles
E Baraldi, M Lanari, P Manzoni, GA Rossi, S Vandini… - Italian journal of pediatrics, 2014