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DEFINITION:
1) Bronchopneumonia: a febrile illness with cough and respiratory distress with evidence of bilateral localized
or generalized patchy infiltrate
2) Lobar pneumonia: similar to bronchopneumonia except that the physical findings and radiographs indicate
lobar consolidation.
AETIOLOGY:
Immunosuppressed children:
o have underlying illness: on corticosteroid (eg: leukaemia), or cortisol (eg: nephrotic)
o cystic fibrosis: having risk at specific pathogen (eg: pseudomonas spp.)
Non-infectious causes:
o Aspiration of food/gastric acid (in cerebral palsy)
o Foreign bodies (causes wheezing on one side)
o Hydrocarbons
o Lipid substances
o Hypersensitivity rxn
o Drug/radiation (cause induced pneumonitis)
AETIOLOGICAL AGENTS:
CFs:
Mx: