Prednisone for acute virus-associated wheeze in children: Panacea or one more brick in the wall?

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 699-700

  Teague, W Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

children; human rhinovirus; prednisolone; Prednisone; viral load; wheeze

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE VIRUS ASSOCIATED WHEEZE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLD; COMMON COLD; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA; INTERVENTION STUDY; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RHINOVIRUS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREDNISOLONE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RHINOVIRUS;

EID: 84924352472     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.10.056     Document Type: Editorial

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