PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Doina Anca Plesca AU - Felicia Cora AU - Eugenia Buzoianu AU - Mariana Moiceanu AU - Victoria Hurduc TI - Risk factors for severe bronchiolitis - A retrospective study DP - 2012 Sep 01 TA - European Respiratory Journal PG - P4660 VI - 40 IP - Suppl 56 4099 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P4660.short 4100 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P4660.full SO - Eur Respir J2012 Sep 01; 40 AB - INTRODUCTION: Bronchiolitis is a common disease in children under 2 years old causing ER presentation and sometimes admission. Severity of bronchiolitis (do to acute respiratory failure) accounts for admission criteria. Children with one or more risk factors for severe bronchiolitis (prematurity, dysmaturity, environmental factors, neurological disease, cardiac disease, airways anomalies, immune deficiency, chronic lung disease, age under 3 months, formula feeding, RSV infection) are among those usually admitted.OBJECTIVES: To reveal the correlation between admissions do to bronchiolitis and the presence of the risk factors.METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted, including 96 children under 2 years old, admitted in our hospital between November 2011 and January 2012. The admission criteria were Wang severity score for bronchiolitis (over 6). We have correlated the hospitalization lasting more than 5 days and/or the Wang score for severity over 10 with the number of risk factors.RESULTS: All 96 children admitted had at least one risk factor for severe bronchiolitis. Children with Wang score over 10 and hospitalization lasting more than 5 days (34 children) associated at least 2 risk factors, most frequent of them being crowded living condition (94%), male sex (73,5%), prematurity (50%), age under 3 months (47%) and other comorbidities (29%).CONCLUSION: Severity of bronchiolitis correlates with number of risk factors that coexist for the same child.