The role of the paediatrician in caring for children with tracheobronchomalacia.

This article focuses on the role of the paediatrician in recognising the condition, the investigative process, and the medical management based on the clinical severity. The principle of management should be holistic, tackling the medical issues of TBM and associated comorbidities, as providing support to families.Expert opinion: There remains a need to devise objective and reproducible bronchoscopic and radiological definitions of severity of TBM. Further studies looking at long-term outcomes of medical therapies used in TBM are required. PMID: 32249702 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Expert Rev Respir Med Source Type: research