Bronchiolitis and bronchitis are both infections that affect the lungs and can have overlapping symptoms such as a cough, wheezing, and low-grade fever. However, there are some very important ...

Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans is an important respiratory illness because of its underlying irreversible fibrotic process, and is defined as concentric fibrosis in the bronchiolar ...

Medically reviewed by Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD Bronchiolitis obliterans, commonly known as "popcorn lung," is a rare lung disease that happens when the smallest airways in your lungs (called ...

Background and Objective: Acute viral bronchiolitis is an important cause of severe low respiratory tract infection in infants worldwide, with significant burden on the healthcare systems.

The association between early childhood serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and eosinophilic asthma remains unclear. We ...

Feeling ill after that Christmas or New Year's Eve party? If could be RSV. But how can you know for sure? Here are the symptoms to look for.

The National Orientation Agency has launched a nationwide awareness campaign to educate Nigerians about Human Metapneumovirus as part of efforts to safeguard public health.

RSV is by far the most frequent cause of paediatric bronchiolitis and pneumonia, is a leading cause of hospitalisation in the first year of life and places a considerable burden on families and ...

Why this is important:- In children with bronchiolitis there is clinical uncertainty about the prediction of deterioration. There are a number of clinical scores for bronchiolitis that include ...

Idiopathic obliterative bronchiolitis disorder is rare and has been described in only a few case reports. [7] The illness begins with shortness of breath and a nonproductive cough with no ...

Why this is important:- There are no effective therapies for the treatment of bronchiolitis. One study reported that infants provided with both nebulised adrenaline and systemic steroids had improved ...