Extensively revised from cover to cover, Kendig and Wilmott's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, 10th Edition, continues to be your 1 choice for reliable, up-to-date information on all aspects of pediatric respiratory disorders. This highly respected reference is accessible to specialists and primary care providers alike, with coverage of both common and less common respiratory problems found in the newborn and child. Detailed and thorough, this edition covers basic science and its relevance to today's clinical issues as well as treatment, management, and outcomes information, making it an ideal resource for day-to-day practice as well as certification or recertification review and other professional examinations such as pHERMES.

Key Features
Offers an international perspective on the whole spectrum of the specialty, including a robust video library with demonstrations of key procedures and bronchoscopic views.

Uses a consistent format with succinct, bulleted text, and contains abundant tables and figures, chapter summaries, and more than 500 full-color images to convey key information in an easy-to-digest manner.

Contains eleven new chapters and discusses timely topics such as big data and -omics in respiratory disease, COVID-19, obesity and its consequences, and vaping and nicotine addiction among children and young people.

Provides up-to-date instruction on key procedures, such as bronchoscopy and pulmonary function testing.

Highlights the knowledge and expertise of nearly 90 new authors who are global experts in the fields of pediatrics, pulmonology, neurology, microbiology, cardiology, physiology, diagnostic imaging, critical care, otolaryngology, allergy, and surgery.

An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.


Author Information
Edited by Andrew Bush, MA, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, Professor of Pediatric Respirology, Imperial College, Consultant Pediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Robin R Deterding, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Breathing Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado; Albert Li, MD, Professor of Paediatrics and Person-in-charge of the Respiratory Service in the Department of Paediatrics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.; Felix Ratjen, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Head, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Sellers Chair of Cystic Fibrosis, Professor, University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Peter Sly, MBBS, MD, FRACP, DSc, Director, University of Queensland, Department of Children's Lung Environment and Asthma Research Group, Brisbane Austrailia; Heather Zar, MD, Professor & Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Director of the School of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.; Robert W. Wilmott, MD, FRCP, IMMUNO Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis University and Chief Pediatrician, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri


1 Molecular Determinants of Lung Morphogenesis
2 Basic Genetics and Epigenetics of Childhood Lung Disease
3 Big data and omics in respiratory diseases: an analytical perspective
4 The Surfactant System
5 The Structural and Physiologic Basis of Respiratory Disease
6 Biology and Assessment of Airway Inflammation
7 Lung Defenses: Intrinsic, Inate and adaptive
8 Monitoring the child: history and physical examination, novel remote monitoring strategie
9 Bronchoscopy and Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Pediatric Patients
10 Diagnostic Imaging of the Respiratory Tract
11 Pulmonary Function Tests in Infants and Preschool Children
12 Excercise and Lung Function in child health and disease
13 Integrating Patient reported outcomes into research and clinical practice: Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health
14 Bronchoscopy and Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Pediatric Patients ASSESSING FOR MALACIA IN AERODIGESTIVE
14 Diagnostic Imaging of the Respiratory Tract INCLUDE DYNAMIC MRI AND LYMPANGIOGRAPHY
14 Excercise and Lung Function in child health and disease
14 Aerosol Therapy in Children
15 Physical Therapies in Pediatric Respiratory Disease
16 Children Dependent on Respiratory Support: invasive and non-invasive ventilation
17 Children Dependent on Respiratory Support: oxygen, and invasive and non-invasive ventilation
17 Microbiological Diagnosis of Respiratory Illness: Recent advances
18 Integrating Patient reported outcomes into research and clinical practice
18 Microbiological Diagnosis of Respiratory Illness: Recent advances
18 Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care
19 Long Term Consequences of Childhood Respiratory Disease
20 Pediatric Lung Transplantation
21 Congenital Lung Disease
22 Respiratory Disorders in the Newborn
23 Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
24 Acute Infections that produce upper airway obstruction
25 Bronchiolitis
26 Respiratory Disorders in the Newborn
26 Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
26 Acute Infections that produce upper airway obstruction
26 Bronchiolitis
26 Pneumonia in Children and its complications
27 Novel Respiratory Disease (Include Covid)
28 Tuberculosis
29 Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease
30 The Mycoses
31 Non - Tuberculosis Mycobacterial Disease
31 Pertussis and Other Bordetella Infections of the Respiratory Tract
32 Parasitic Infections Affecting the Lung Infections (Toxocariasis, Hydatid Disease of the Lung, Strongyloidiasis, and Pulmonary Paragonimiasis)
33 The Epidemiology of Asthma
34 The Immunopathogenesis of Asthma
35 Asthma in the Preschool Age Child
36 Pertussis and Other Bordetella Infections of the Respiratory Tract
36 Wheezing in Older Children: Asthma
37 Severe Asthma ( include monoclonals and upper airway as a comorbidity)
38 Genetics and Pathophysiology of Cystic Fibrosis
39 Diagnosis and Presentation of Cystic Fibrosis
40 Pulmonary Disease in Cystic Fibrosis
41 Non-Pulmonary Manifestations of Cystic Fibrosis
42 Modern Molecular Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis
43 Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and other cilopathies
44 Persistent bacterial bronchitis and bronchiectasis
45 New Concepts in Children's Interstitial Lung Disease and Diffuse Lung Disease
46 Rare and new childhood Lung Disorders
47 Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease Disorders More Prevalent in Infancy
48 Lung Diseases Associated with Disruption of Pulmonary Surfactant Homeostasis
49 Pulmonary Involvement in the Systemic Diseases of Childhood
50 Lung Injury Caused by Pharmacologic Agents
51 Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Children
52 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
53 Primary Immunodeficiency: and other Diseases with Immune Dysregulations
54 Pulmonary Disease in the Immunosuppressed Pediatric Patient (include complications of solid organ and stem cell transplant)
55 Respiratory disorders in pediatric HIV infected children and adolescents
56 Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Children
56 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
56 Pulmonary embolism and thromboembolic disease
57 Childhood Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
58 Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations
59 Pulmonary lymphatic disease
60 The Aerodigestive Model
61 Pulmonary lymphatic disease RISHI PABARY, RBH
61 Aspiration Feeding Swallowing and Voice Disorders
61 Aspiration Feeding and Swallowing Disorders
62 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Children with Complex Airway Disease
63 Laryngeal and Tracheal Airway Disorders
64 Basic physiology of sleep
65 Testing for sleep disordered breathing
66 OSA in children
67 Complex sleep disorders in children include CCHS and other hypoventilation syndromes in Complex sleep disorders in children?
68 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and apparent life threatening events
69 Principles of invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation
70 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
71 Pulmonary Edema
72 Lung Injury From external insults: Hydrocarbon Aspiration and Smoke Inhalation trauma and drowing
72 Lung Injury From external insults: Hydrocarbon Aspiration
73 Drowning
74 Trauma to the Respiratory Tract
74 Smoke Inhalation
75 Respiratory Complications of Intensive Care
76 Pulmonary disease associated with Congenital Heart disease
77 The Lung in Sickle Cell Disease
78 Respiratory complication of Down Syndrome and other genetic syndromes
78 Tumors of the Chest
80 Neurological and Chest wall disease
81 Air/ Fluid in the Pleural Space and Atelectasis
82 Environmental contributions to respiratory disease in children
83 Nicotine and the lung: tobacco, e-cigarettes