Mannitol Challenge to Assess Therapy Response in Asthmatic Children: An Interventional Cohort Study.

Bronchial provocation tests, such as the mannitol challenge, can be performed to identify and quantify the severity of bronchial hyperresponsiveness in asthmatic patients. Studies of the mannitol challenge as a monitoring tool in asthmatic children are limited. Our primary aim was to compare the bronchial hyperresponsiveness to mannitol in treatment-naive asthmatic children between baseline and three months after receiving the indicated asthma prophylaxis.

Long-term outcome of parapneumonic effusions in children: Lung function and exercise tolerance.

Objectives: a: To evaluate the long-term outcome of parapneumonic effusions (PPE) in children regarding lung function and exercise tolerance, (b) to investigate the role of bronchial asthma in the outcome of PPE.

Methods: The design of the study included 51 children with PPE, at least 2 years after the initial infection. They were divided in two groups.

Association between primary nocturnal enuresis and habitual snoring in children with obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome.

Introduction: Nocturnal enuresis (NE) and obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS) are common problems during childhood, and population studies have reported a significant correlation between them. This study aimed to assess whether habitual snoring, mouth breathing and daytime sleepiness are associated with increased incidence of NE in children with OSAHS.

Material And Methods: Polysomnography was performed in 42 children (66.

Acute bronchiolitis in a paediatric emergency department of Northern Greece. Comparisons between two decades.

Introduction: Acute bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection in infants and toddlers concerning small bronchi or bronchioli. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the incidence of acute bronchiolitis and the use of β(2)-agonists between two different decades.

Material And Methods: During 1990-1991 and 2001-2002, the files of the 2(nd) Paediatric Emergency Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital were reviewed and cases of acute bronchiolitis were recorded and analysed.

Short-term and long-term mortality following pediatric intensive care.

Background: The aim of the present study was to examine short-term and long-term mortality following discharge from the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Methods: This was a prospective observational study. Data collected consisted of demographics, severity scores, procedures, treatment, need for and duration of mechanical ventilation (MV), length of PICU and hospital stay, and mortality at PICU and hospital discharge, at 3 and 6 months and at 1 and 2 years.

The effect of obesity on pulmonary lung function of school aged children in Greece.

Obesity impacts on many issues of pulmonary medicine, where it is debated if obesity is linked to asthma, atopy or altered lung function tests. Our study aimed to investigate primarily the effect of obesity on the lung function tests and secondary the possible link of obesity with atopy and asthma in a large cohort of children in Greece. Body mass index (BMI) and data from a questionnaire for lung health, atopy, nutritional habits and family history were obtained from 2,715 children aged 6-11 years.