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Viral infections profoundly influence the onset and disease activity of wheezing illnesses and asthma in childhood. In infancy, viral bronchiolitis shares many features with asthma, and a subset of children...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of inhaled hypertonic saline solution in hospitalized infants with bronchiolitis.
METHODS: A randomized double blind trial was performed from October 2003 to May 2004. A total...
Acute viral bronchiolitis (AVB) is an obstructive lung disease which frequently develops in infants and the most common functional involvement is a V/Q ratio change caused by small airway obstruction....
PURPOSE: This study was performed to investigate the epidemiologic and clinical features of 13 respiratory viruses in children with acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRIs).
METHODS: Nasopharyngeal aspirates were prospectively obtained...
Thirty years have passed since the Korean Association of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease was founded. There have been great changes in the pattern of respiratory diseases in Korean children...