recurrent pneumonia in childhood

IMMUNE PROBLEMS
- immune deficiency
- chronic granulomatous disease of childhood
- alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency
ASPIRATION
- GE reflux
- H-type TE fistula
- disorder of swallowing
- esophageal obstruction
UNDERLYING LUNG DISEASE
- sequestration
- brochopulmonary dysplasia
- cystic fibrosis
- atopic asthma
- bronchiolitis obliterans
- sinusitis
- bronchiectasis
- ciliary dysmotility syndromes
- pulmonary foreign body

Yong H. Hahn, MD - 2 February 1995
Last updated: 1 September 2006