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July 6, 2020Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Pulmonary function testing with tidal breath analyze technique is useful in predicting persistant small airway damage in infants with acute bronchiolitis

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EÇElif Kaya ÇelikAdnan Menderes UniversityPUPınar UysalAdnan Menderes University

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Implication

Prospective study shows tidal breath analysis predicts airway damage in infants with bronchiolitis, suggesting a valuable assessment tool.

Key Points

  • This study aims to assess the utility of tidal breath analysis in predicting persistent airway damage in infants with acute bronchiolitis.
  • Enrolled 111 infants aged 1 month to 2 years, including 61 with acute bronchiolitis and 50 healthy controls.
  • Lung function was assessed using the tidal breath analysis technique on hospitalization day one and repeated at 7 and 30 days post-treatment.
  • Tidal breath parameters tPTEF, tPTEF:tE, VT/kg, and tI/tE ratio remained significantly lower at 30 days.
  • tPTEF:tE ratio inversely correlated with hospitalization duration and disease severity, strongly correlating with VPTEF:VE (r = .876, P < .001).

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Çelik et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a22cd22387aa7e7e58de936https://doi.org/10.1111/pai.13318
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