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A joint study covering the patients of four children's bronchological centers of the GDR was carried out to obtain, clarity on the importance of chronic bronchitis in childhood and its prognosis. It could be proved by bronchographic re-examinations of 220 children suffering from deformous bronchitis that by a one year's or several year's treatment an improvement or normalization of the findings can be achieved in about two thirds of the patients. Only in 22 per cent of the patients a deterioration or a conversion to bronchiectasis was observed. These remarkable results confirm our working hypothesis on the reversible character of deformous bronchitis in childhood which on the other hand may change into irreversible bronchiectasis. Deformous bronchitis constitues a serious disease and requires prolonged and comprehensive complex treatment in a special bronchopulmological dispensary care.
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Dietzsch, H. PROGNOSIS OF DEFORMOUS BRONCHITIS IN CHILDHOOD. Pediatr Res 9, 858 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197511000-00037
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