chILD category | chILD group/diagnosis | Numbers of first-choice assignations | |
<2 years | >2 years | ||
chILD groups | Normal | 3 | 18 |
Airways disease# | 77 | 170 | |
Interstitial pneumonia | 126 | 200 | |
Developmental/undefined aetiology disorders¶ | 99 | 48 | |
Unclassifiable | 4 | 13 | |
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia | 29 | 10 | |
Other | 12 | 31 | |
chILD Diagnoses | Exudative bronchiolitis | 4 | 2 |
Constrictive obliterative bronchiolitis | 10 | 48 | |
Infection | 48 | 86 | |
Chronic pneumonitis of infancy | 47 | 12 | |
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis | 53 | 24 | |
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia | 8 | 13 | |
Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (cellular) | 16 | 34 | |
Diffuse alveolar damage | 3 | 8 | |
Fibrotic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia | 1 | 47 | |
Organising pneumonia | 0 | 30 | |
Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage | 1 | 11 | |
Alveolar microlithiasis | 0 | 3 | |
Sarcoidosis | 0 | 6 | |
Langerhans cell histiocytosis | 1 | 12 | |
Lung growth abnormality/chronic disease of prematurity | 83 | 12 | |
Pulmonary interstitial glycogenosis | 11 | 0 | |
Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy | 30 | 15 | |
Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia | 1 | 23 | |
Diffuse lymphoid hyperplasia | 1 | 2 | |
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis | 1 | 4 | |
Follicular bronchiolitis | 0 | 6 | |
Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue | 0 | 1 | |
Primary pulmonary arterial hypertension | 1 | 4 | |
PVOD/PCH | 3 | 5 | |
Thromboembolic disease | 1 | 3 | |
Lymphangiomatosis | 1 | 1 | |
Lymphangiectasia (primary and secondary) | 7 | 7 | |
Secondary vasculopathies (e.g. due to cardiac disease) | 6 | 2 | |
Primary and secondary pulmonary vasculitis | 1 | 14 | |
Neoplasms | 0 | 9 | |
Alternate diagnosis | 11 | 24 |
PVOD: pulmonary veno-occlusive disease; PCH: pulmonary capillary haemangiomatosis. #: airways disease included infection and obliterative and exudative bronchiolitis; ¶: developmental/undefined aetiology disorders included growth disorders such as alveolar hypoplasia, neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy and pulmonary interstitial glycogenosis.