Acute Obstructive Laryngotracheitis and Laryngotracheobronchitis Report of an Outbreak

Summary Eight hundred and fifteen cases of pseudocroup seen partly at the Department of Paediatrics during a 30 year period and partly at the Department of Otolaryngology, Lund, during a 10 year period, are described. The material was divided chronologically into 4 groups, one group per decade, and one group consisting of cases from the Department of Otolaryngology. The cases were studied regarding frequency, prognosis, heredity, allergy, number of hospital days, duration of fever, ESR and number of leucocytes on admission. It was found that the frequency of the disease had increased and that the mortality had fallen from 6 % to about 1 %‐total mortality 1.7 %. Five point six per cent of the series had acute laryngotracheobronchitis, 13 of the 14 patients, who had died, had had laryngotracheobronchitis. The percentage of patients with a normal ESR had increased during the three decades, but still more striking was the increase in the percentage of patients with a normal number of leucocytes on admission (from 29 % to 74 %). The aetiology is discussed and it is stressed that the change in the number of leucocytes during the periods covered by the investigation may be a sign of an increasing importance of virus as a contributory cause of pseudocroup.

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Tracheotomy in Acute Obliterative Laryngotracheobronchitis

Briggs¹,

Heseltine²

1952

BMJ

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Acute Obstructive Laryngotracheitis and Laryngotracheobronchitis Report of an Outbreak

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