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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 31, No. 9, 532-535 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/000992289203100903

A Changing Pattern of Epiglottitis

Michael Ryan, D.O.

Department of Pediatric Subspecialties Geisinger Medical Center Danville, Pennsylvania

Michael Hunt, D.O.

Department of Pediatric Subspecialties Geisinger Medical Center Danville, Pennsylvania

Tina Snowberger, D.O.

Department of Pediatric Subspecialties Geisinger Medical Center Danville, Pennsylvania

Address correspondence to: Michael Ryan, D.O., Department of Pediatric Subspecialties, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA 17822-1339 Summary: A case review of epiglottitis at Geisinger Medical Center over the past 12 years demonstrates a decrease in the number of pediatric patients with epiglottitis and an increase in the number of adults with epiglottitis. In the last five years, the number of epiglottitis patients younger than 10 years has fallen (0 cases), while the number of patients over 10 years of age has increased (6 cases). The cause of epiglottitis, Hemophilus influenzae type b, remains constant in the pediatric as well as in the adult population. There appears to be an increasing frequency of epiglottitis in adults and a decreasing frequency of epiglottitis in children.


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