The physician who encounters an infant with respiratory distress associated with inspiratory stridor and expiratory wheezing should maintain an expanded differential diagnosis. Hypocalcemia should ...

Children with viral-induced wheeze often receive oral or inhaled corticosteroids or a leukotriene inhibitor despite a lack of good evidence that they work. Three studies shed light on this condition.

COPD, for example, should not cause stridor or inspiratory wheezing. For this reason, the lateral neck radiograph was performed (Figure 1). Stridor is typically caused by narrowing of the upper ...