Challenging Cases in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

Andrew Bush, Thomas Semple

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781032963013
  9781032963020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040661109
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Internal Medicine & Diagnosis

When a few doctors get together, they always start discussing their fascinating cases, and one can learn a lot from the diagnostic journey, including the blind alleys, taken by others. Yet case report publications are rare because they are not cited. These challenging cases in paediatric respiratory medicine from around the world, are chosen to illustrate important learning points. The format is a case scenario followed by the diagnosis, treatment outcomes, learning points, and references for bibliography.

Key Features

• Presents educational case reports from across the world that complement existing major books, allowing the reader to see how well they can apply knowledge to challenging clinical cases
• Invokes the clinician to diagnose and manage challenges in paediatric respiratory medicine
• Uses high-quality images including radiography, physiology, and pathology with references to key recent reviews

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Editors
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 A young girl with an incidentally discovered mass on a chest radiograph
• Chapter 2 The boy who coughs when vomiting and vomits when coughing
• Chapter 3 A neonate with bleeding and tracheobronchial calcifications
• Chapter 4 A tale of two diagnoses
• Chapter 5 A child with interstitial lung disease and hepatic cirrhosis
• Chapter 6 Where is this baby’s left lung?
• Chapter 7 Approaches to preventing infection and optimising airway clearance in a child with cerebral palsy
• Chapter 8 Did God do it or did the doctor do it?: A diagnostic conundrum
• Chapter 9 A rare paediatric case of chronic lung disease and immunodeficiency: To biopsy or not to biopsy?
• Chapter 10 A boy with hydropneumothorax who did not get better
• Chapter 11 Unexplained hypoxaemia in a toddler: A diagnostic journey
• Chapter 12 A teenager who coughed up blood
• Chapter 13 The role of flexible bronchoscopy in localizing lymphatic leak
• Chapter 14 Respiratory distress in an infant born to a mother with tuberculosis in Cape Town
• Chapter 15 Big head, stubborn lung: A quirky case of ventriculomegaly and collapsed lung
• Chapter 16 A case of pulmonary hypertension: A challenge in LMICs
• Chapter 17 A toddler with persistent productive cough and chest X-ray changes
• Chapter 18 An infant with intermittent wheeze
• Chapter 19 Persistent severe wheezing in a young child from an LMIC
• Chapter 20 Recurrent pneumonia and a mediastinal mass
• Index