For religious reasons, a young couple has not given their 4-year-old daughter the usual childhood immunizations. She has been repeatedly hospitalized with pulmonary infections
What should the respiratory therapist caring for the child tell the parents that the child is at risk of developing?
a. Chronic bronchitis
b. Asthma
c. Bronchiectasis
d. Left ventricular hypertrophy
C
Repeated childhood pulmonary infections can result in bronchiectasis in later life. Chronic bronchitis has similarities to bronchiectasis but is usually associated with smoking. Neither asthma nor left ventricular hypertrophy is related to bronchiectasis.
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