Bronchiectasis in children
Bronchiectasis is a chronic suppurative disease in which the bronchial wall is damaged, deformed and dilated due to repeated infection, secretion obstruction or congenital developmental defects. The lesions are generally irreversible and progress slowly. About 50% of adult patients have symptoms that start in childhood, mainly manifested as frequent fever, cough, sputum and even hemoptysis. In recent years, due to the strengthening of the prevention and treatment of respiratory tract infections and the timely use of antibiotics, the incidence has been reduced and the symptoms are milder than in the past.
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Site of disease:
lungs heart blood vessels -
Infectious :
Not contagious -
Frequent population:
Infants and young children -
Related symptoms:
Liver enlargement persistent cough chest deformity proteinuria cough -
Concurrent disease: