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BMJ Open
December 2024
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Objectives: Although croup is a common respiratory illness, there is little published regarding symptom course. We aimed to assess symptom progression and caregiver burden, and whether age, sex or season and initial severity of disease are associated with symptom duration.
Design, Setting And Participants: We conducted a secondary analysis of two Canadian prospective cohorts of children 0-16 years old diagnosed with croup; one recruited from a paediatric emergency department (ED) (307 children) between November 1999 and March 2000, and the other from 26 general EDs (1214 children) between September 2002 and April 2006.
Pril (Makedon Akad Nauk Umet Odd Med Nauki)
November 2024
Faculty of Medical Sciences, Goce Delcev University, Stip, RN Macedonia.
Croup is a common respiratory illness in children under 5 years, primarily caused by viral infections. Symptoms include inspiratory stridor, barking cough, and hoarseness due to inflamed vocal cords. Diagnosis is based on symptoms difficulty breathing, stridor, chest in-drawing voice changes and head nodding.
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August 2024
Emergency Medicine, Maitland Hospital, Newcastle, AUS.
We describe a case of adult croup in an 18-year-old female caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Her complaints started as lower respiratory tract symptoms that evolved into stridor, barking cough, and dyspnea. The patient was diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing from a nasopharyngeal swab.
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October 2024
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago Illinois USA.
Objective: Heliox, a mixture of helium and oxygen, has been shown to improve laminar airflow and decrease airway resistance in children. This study aims to describe the outcomes of heliox use in children with respiratory compromise and to identify variables associated with a need for airway surgical intervention.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study of patients who received heliox between 2012 and 2022 at a tertiary care children's hospital.
Cureus
May 2024
Neonatology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA.
This case report details an atypical etiology of laryngotracheitis (croup) in a three-year-old child diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Unlike typical croup cases, the patient required hospitalization and multiple administrations of racemic epinephrine for respiratory distress. The author highlights the importance of considering COVID-19 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)) as a potential etiology of croup in children.
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