Jose A Castro-Rodriguez

..Although thousands of infants under the age of 12 months die each year from pneumonia in Latin America, little is known regarding the true occurrence of pneumonia, wheezing and other related respiratory illnesses in this age group...

..To compare the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) versus montelukast (MONT) in schoolchildren and adolescents with mild-moderate persistent asthma...

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..The objective was to compare the efficacy of a single dose of oral dexamethasone in infants with moderate to severe bronchiolitis presenting to an emergency department...

..A better understanding of those risk factors would be useful for the development of new strategies in wheezing/asthma management...

..To test the hypothesis that the Mediterranean diet can be a protective factor for current wheezing in preschoolers...

..Atopy and bronchial hyperreactivity are factors related to severe and unremitting asthma of childhood; however, the prevalence of these factors could be different according to age of the child...

..Recurrent wheezing is a common problem in young children...

..of acute asthma exacerbations and proposes management protocols for use in both primary care and emergency units...

..These mechanisms should be taken into account in future preventive and therapeutic strategies...

..However, this relation is complex, involving not only the interaction of genetic and environmental factors in triggering both diseases but also the likely participation of several mechanisms at once...

..In developing countries, even when non-AA is more prevalent than AA among schoolchildren, no data are available regarding clinical, functional, and epidemiological differences between these 2 groups...

..80%, respectively). This study represents the spectra of adenovirus pneumonia ranging from relatively mild to severe and fatal cases. Children with severe pulmonary compromise are usually more prone to develop BO...

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..05 ml Pasteur-Mérieux strain. However, the differences in TST size induced by diverse BCG vaccination modalities may not reflect the quality of the immunologically induced response in terms of TB protection...

..To test the hypothesis that consuming Mediterranean diet and using olive oil for cooking/dressing salads during pregnancy might be associated with less wheezing during the first year of the offspring's life...

..To compare the efficacy of beta-agonists given by metered-dose inhaler with a valved holding chamber (MDI+VHC) or nebulizer in children under 5 years of age with acute exacerbations of wheezing or asthma in the emergency department setting...

..However, to the best of our knowledge, their predictive properties have not been evaluated in any lower- to middle-income country...

..However, the prevalence of wheezing in the last 12 months and asthma ever was quite similar between adolescents and parents, suggesting that these questions are crucial for assessing asthma in epidemiological studies...

..To compare the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids in infants and preschoolers with recurrent wheezing or asthma...

..This evidence supports the importance of providing a complete asthma education plan in any patient who is admitted for asthma exacerbation...

..Etiological agents were identified in 41% of children. In conclusion, azithromycin is an effective therapeutic option for the treatment of community-acquired classic and atypical pneumonia in children...

..This study strongly suggests that potent and more effective campaigns against tobacco smoking should be implemented in developing countries, where active tobacco smoking is dramatically increasing in children...

..In the exercise challenge test (ECT), a drop in forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV(1)) of between 10 and 15% is the determinant variable for a diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchospasm...

..PAF for asthma owing to atopy could be very different within the same country, probably depending on the allergen supply which may depend on environmental factors such as the climate...