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Adult Croup

Adult croup is a distinct disease entity that probably represents a heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Three cases of adult laryngotracheitis characterized by upper airway infection and progression to airway obstruction are illustrated. Close observation and prompt decisions regarding airway intervent...

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Autores principales: Tong, Michael C.F., Chu, Ming Chi, Leighton, Susanna E.J., van Hasselt, C. Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. 1996
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8769531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.109.6.1659
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author Tong, Michael C.F.
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description Adult croup is a distinct disease entity that probably represents a heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Three cases of adult laryngotracheitis characterized by upper airway infection and progression to airway obstruction are illustrated. Close observation and prompt decisions regarding airway intervention are critical in effective management, and complete resolution is expected.
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spelling pubmed-70946182020-03-25 Adult Croup Tong, Michael C.F. Chu, Ming Chi Leighton, Susanna E.J. van Hasselt, C. Andrew Chest Pulmonary and Critical Care Pearls Adult croup is a distinct disease entity that probably represents a heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Three cases of adult laryngotracheitis characterized by upper airway infection and progression to airway obstruction are illustrated. Close observation and prompt decisions regarding airway intervention are critical in effective management, and complete resolution is expected. The American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. 1996-06 2016-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7094618/ /pubmed/8769531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.109.6.1659 Text en © 1996 The American College of Chest Physicians Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094618/
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