2015, Number 4
Complicated community acquired pneumonia: Symptom and radiographic resolution in children
Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 438-446
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: acute respiratory diseases overall pneumonia are a critical health problem because are frequent causes of infant morbidities and mortalities around the world.Objective: to determine the evolution of clinical and radiological finding.
Material and Methods: a descriptive and longitudinal study was performed it included 207 patients admitted at the Respiratory Service of the Pediatric University Hospital "Juan Manuel Márquez" with diagnose of Complicated community acquired pneumonia from 2008 up to 2012. The age, sex clinical and radiological characteristics were studied. The entire patient enrolled was following up from the hospital discharged up to lung lesions disappear in the respiratory outpatient consult. Chi-square test was used to know the possible homogeneity’s group.
Results: there was a preponderance of patient aged from 1 to 4 years old and were affected male and female equally. The clinical findings most frequent were fiber in 207(100%) vesicular breath sound diminished in 197(95%) and polypnea in 148(71%). The most frequent complications were pleura effusion and lung abscess in 176 (85%) patients and 35(16.9%) respectively. The solution of clinical and radiological findings appeared in the half of patients in less than 2 weeks, followed of 2-4 weeks excepting in patients with lung abscess and pneumatocele.
Conclusions: length of radiological findings was more extended than clinical and from these the most extended were vesicular breath sound diminished, sub dullness and the rattles.
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