Recent advances in paediatric respiratory medicine

Arch Dis Child. 2016 Feb;101(2):193-7. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307212. Epub 2015 Aug 19.

Abstract

This review highlights important advances in paediatric respiratory medicine since 2014, excluding cystic fibrosis. It focuses mainly on the more common conditions, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, bronchiolitis and preschool wheezing, asthma, pneumonia and sleep, and highlights some of the rarer conditions such as primary ciliary dyskinesia and interstitial lung disease (ILD).

Keywords: Paediatric Practice; Respiratory.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acetates / therapeutic use
  • Anti-Asthmatic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Asthma / drug therapy
  • Asthma / mortality
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia / complications
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia / therapy
  • Ciliary Motility Disorders / diagnosis
  • Cyclopropanes
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnosis
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / therapy
  • Medication Adherence
  • Pediatrics / trends*
  • Pulmonary Medicine / trends*
  • Quinolines / therapeutic use
  • Saline Solution, Hypertonic / therapeutic use
  • Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / surgery
  • Sulfides

Substances

  • Acetates
  • Anti-Asthmatic Agents
  • Cyclopropanes
  • Quinolines
  • Saline Solution, Hypertonic
  • Sulfides
  • montelukast