Current thinking about brachycephalic syndrome: more thanjust airways

摘要

BS results from morphological and functional alterations affecting the upper and lower respiratory tract as well as several other body systems. Although the more common term is brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome, this is a complex hereditary disease with multiple effects, so it is perhaps more appropriate to move towards a more nonspecific term like brachycephalic syndrome as has been recently suggested (Roeder et al, 2013).