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Pulmonary function following staphylococcal pneumonia in children
Author(s) -
SOTO MANUEL,
DEMIS TIM,
LANDAU LOUIS I.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1983.tb02086.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , empyema , incidence (geometry) , lung function , radiological weapon , asthma , lung disease , lung , chronic pneumonia , airway , inhalation , pneumatocele , intensive care medicine , immunology , pathology , surgery , anesthesia , physics , optics
. Twenty three subjects with proven staphylococcal pneumonia (19 with empyema) were studied 12–25 years after the original infection. Clinical radiological, and lung function status and airway response to histamine inhalation was assessed. No clinical or radiological changes resulted from the original staphylococcal infection. No subject had physiological evidence of chronic lung disease and there was no evidence of an increased incidence of airways hyperreactivity.