Utilization of chronic lung disease treatment before the respiratory syncytial virus season

Abstract Guidelines recommend palivizumab immunoprophylaxis for children with CLD in their second year of life if they continue to need treatment within 6 months before the RSV season. The utilization patterns of treatment (chronic corticosteroid therapy, diuretic therapy, or supplemental oxygen) are not well understood. We examined variations in CLD treatment for ten consecutive 20-day segments preceding RSV season onset. Among infants and children with CLD (n = 19,026), 35.2% received one or more medical treatments for CLD any time within 200 days before entering the second RSV season: 8.6%, 3.2%, and 29.7% received oxygen, diuretics, and corticosteroids, respectively. Utilization decreased as infants’ age increased with corticosteroids surpassing oxygen and diuretics. To avoid the capture of intermittent use of corticosteroids for acute infections, we found a minimum of 45 days cumulative exposure was necessary to determine chronic use..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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ResearchSquare.com - (2022) vom: 29. Juli Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Choi, Yoonyoung [VerfasserIn]
Meissner, H. Cody [VerfasserIn]
Hampp, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Park, Haesuk [VerfasserIn]
Winterstein, Almut G. [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-306149/v1

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XRA033700478