clinical features of bronchiectasis in children
Last reviewed 01/2018
Clinical presentation of bronchiectasis in children
- failure to thrive or malnutrition - in UK, children are likely to be of normal weight and height
- a chronic productive or moist cough
- wheeze
- haemoptysis (usually blood-streaked sputum)
- exertional breathlessness
- recurrent lower respiratory tract
- signs include
- finger clubbing - absent in non- cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
- cyanosis
- hyperinflation
- chest deformity - uncommon in non- cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
- persistent inspiratory crackles (1)
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