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Review
. 2017 Feb 27:5:30.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2017.00030. eCollection 2017.

Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease in Children: Definition and Spectrum of Disease

Gregory J Redding  1 , Edward R Carter  2
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Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease in Children: Definition and Spectrum of Disease

Gregory J Redding et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

The most common clinical suppurative lung conditions in children are empyema, lung abscess, and bronchiectasis, and to a less often necrotizing pneumonia. Until recently, bronchiectasis was the most common form of persistent suppurative lung disease in children. Protracted bacterial bronchitis is a newly described chronic suppurative condition in children, which is less persistent but more common than bronchiectasis (1). In addition, the term "chronic suppurative lung disease" has been used recently to describe the clinical features of bronchiectasis when the radiographic features needed to make a diagnosis of bronchiectasis are absent. Webster's New College Dictionary defines suppuration as the process of forming and/or discharging pus. Pus is a body fluid resulting from intense inflammation in response to infection that leads to neutrophil influx and apoptosis, microbial clearance, and often necrosis of nearby tissue. Pus is primarily composed of white blood cell debris.

Keywords: abscess; bronchiectasis; bronchitis; global; lung children; suppurative.

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Figure 1
Episodes of acute pneumonia per child year produced in 2007 by the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group, established by the World Health Organization. Reproduced with permission from Rudan et al. (38) and the World Health Organization.
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Cigarette consumption (#cigarettes smoked per person per year among adults) compiled by the Tobacco Atlas in 2015. Reproduced with permission from Copyright Clearance Center license #3981000761719.
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Figure 3
Percentage of households using solid fuel for cooking in 2000 according to the World Health Organization. Reprinted with permission of the American Thoracic Society. Reproduced from Copyright © 2016 American Thoracic Society. The Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society is an official journal of the American Thoracic Society. It was renamed the Annals of the American Thoracic Society in 2013 (40).
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Figure 4
Percentage of children <5 years old who are underweight produced by the Center of International Earth Science Information Network in 2005. Reproduced with permission from Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University (41).
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Figure 5
Tuberculosis cases in adults and children per 100,000 populations in 2007 compiled by the World Health Organization. Reproduced with permission from World Health Organization Map Production: Public Health Information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) World Health Organization.
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Figure 6
HIV disease prevalence in 2007 compiled by the World Health Organization. Reproduced with permission from WHO/UNAIDS Map Production: Public Health Information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) World Health Organization.
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