[Pediatric pneumological aspects in the care of children with neuromuscular diseases with focus on Duchenne muscular dystrophy].

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common inherited neuromuscular disease in children. In addition to the progressive loss of motor skills and cardiac involvement, respiratory muscle weakness leads to a restrictive lung disease and cough insufficiency. Specific respiratory interventions have significantly improved survival and quality of life of the affected boys.

Quality Control of Nitrogen Multiple Breath Washout in a Multicenter Pediatric Asthma Study.

Background: Nitrogen multiple breath washout (N2MBW) is a lung function test increasingly used in small airway diseases. Quality criteria have not yet been globally implemented and time-consuming retrospective overreading is necessary. Little data has been published on children with recurrent wheeze or asthma from multicentered studies.

Complete Tracheal Ring Deformity, Recurrent Pneumothoraces and Pleuropulmonary Blastoma in a Child: Coincidence or Common Genetic Cause?

Complete tracheal ring deformity (CTRD) is a rare abnormality of unknown etiology characterized by circumferentially continuous cartilaginous tracheal rings leading to variable degrees of tracheal stenosis with or without additional heart and lung malformations. Pleuropulmonary blastomas (PPB) are rare malignant mesenchymal tumors, which occur almost exclusively in young children. Pathogenic germline variants are associated with PPB but also with other tumors like rhabdomyosarcoma or syndromic diseases like GLOW (Global developmental delay, lung cysts, overgrowth and Wilms tumor) syndrome.