Inflammation and obstruction of small airways and reactive airways generally affecting infants and young children—upper respiratory infection (URI) prodrome followed by increased res...
Hospitalization is usually required only if oxygen is a requirement or unable to feed/drink.
For a hospitalized patient, monitor as needed depend...
Freire G, Kuppermann N, Zemek Ret al; for Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN). Predicting escalated care in infants with bronchiolitis. Pediatrics. 2018;142(3):pii: e...
J21.9 Acute bronchiolitis, unspecified
J21.0 Acute bronchiolitis due to respiratory syncytial virus
J21.8 Acute bronchiolitis due to other specified organisms
J21.1 Acute bronchiolitis due to ...
Bronchiolitis is the leading cause of hospitalizations in infants and children—especially <3 months of age.
Diagnosis is a clinical one of children in the first 2 years of life, asso...
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Bronchiolitis due to adenovirus. The wall of this bronchiole shows an intense chronic inflammatory infiltrate, with local extension into the surrounding peribronchial tissue.
Bronchiolitis due to adenovirus. The wall of this bronchiole shows an intense chronic inflammatory infiltrate, with local extension into t...