دراسة مقارنة عملية لدور الكورتيكوستيروئيدات الجهازية في علاج التهاب القصيبات الشعرية

The study included /206/ infants of the admitted children to AL–ASAAD Teaching Hospital whose ages ranged between 3 months and 2 years and suffered from the first episode of bronchitis. Those children were divided into two equal groups: the first was treated by systemic corticosteroid and inhaled bronchodilators, while the second was treated only by inhaling bronchodilators. The average response to treatment in the first group was (87.37%), while the average response treatment in the second was only (13.6%). The period of hospitalization was /3-5/ days (81.55%), and /5-7/ days (10.67%), and more than a week for (7.76%) in the first group, while the period of hospitalization was /3-5/ days for (12.62%), and /5-7/ days for (47.57%), and more than a week for (39.81%).