1. Clinical significance of asthma predictive index, Etoaxin, interleukin-4, interferon-γ in infants with recurrent wheezing
Yi ZHANG ; Changsuo HAO ; Changshan LIU
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2019;34(16):1227-1230
Objective:
To investigate the clinical significance of asthma prediction index (API), Eotaxin(Eot), interleukin-4 (IL-4), interferon-γ (IFN-γ), eosinophil (Eos) in predicting recurrent wheezing in infants.
Methods:
Ninety-six infants with first wheezing attack due to bronchiolitis from April 2015 to April 2016 at the Department of Pediatrics, the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University were selected.The medical history and other clinical data were collected, and the peripheral blood samples were collected to detect Eot, IL-4, IFN-γ, Eos count and serum specific immunoglobulin E(sIgE). Then all infants were followed up by telephone until 2-year-old to find whether recurrent wheezing attack occurred and then API was calculated.According to the recurrent wheezing times during the follow-up, they were divided into 2 groups: the observation group (recurrent attacks≥2 times, 33 cases) and the control group (no recurrent wheezing during follow-up, 60 cases). The infants in the observation group were divided into the API positive group (18 cases) and the API negative group (14 cases) according to API.The differences in clinical data and peripheral blood indexes were analyzed by independent sample