An infant fatality associated with inspiratory and expiratory wheezing: another wheeze that wasn't asthma.
The physician who encounters an infant with respiratory distress associated with inspiratory stridor and expiratory wheezing should maintain an expanded differential diagnosis. Hypocalcemia should be included in the differential diagnosis for biphasic wheezing. Failure to consider this entity may lead to adverse patient outcome.
Abrunzo
T J
TJ
Pediatric Emergency Department, St. Joseph's Hospital, Tampa, FL., USA.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D006996:Hypocalcemia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*