Successful treatment of postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans with gamma globulin in a tertiary center: 10 years of experience.

Corticosteroids are considered the best first-line treatment to control inflammation in PIBO. In our study group, PIBO patients showed favorable clinical and radiological responses to regular IVIG treatment, possibly due to minor immune deficiency secondary to steroids or as a result of undetected adaptive and innate immune defects involved in the etiology of severe PIBO.