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MAXIMILIAN ZACH, MD; HEIMO MESSNER, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1983;137(2):184-185.

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Recurrent croup is a well-recognized clinical entity characterized by repeated episodes of inspiratory stridor and barking cough.^1,2 The cause of this disorder, however, is not known. Some clinical similarities to asthma have been reported.³ Many such children show a specific type of airway hyperreactivity that involves both the lower and upper respiratory tracts.⁴ Their episodes of croup might be due to a triggering event that interacts with some predisposition.

A significant association of recurrent croup and allergy has been reported previously.³ This led us to study the serum levels of immunoglobulin fractions (IgG, IgA, IgM, and IgE) in children with recurrent croup.

Patients and Methods.—Twenty-two children, 12 boys and 10 girls, hospitalized in 1980 for an episode of recurrent croup, were studied between two and 12 months thereafter. Only children with a minimum of three episodes entered the study.

Two other groups of children in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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