Review article

Pandemic Influenza: a Report from Osijek

Ljiljana Perić ; Klinika za infektologiju Medicinskog fakuteta Sveučilišta u Osijeku
Ivana Pavlović ; Klinika za infektologiju Medicinskog fakuteta Sveučilišta u Osijeku

Abstract

We conducted a retrospective study of the medical records of patients diagnosed with influenza and hospitalized at the Clinic for Infections of the Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek in the period from 1 November 2009 to 28 February 2011. Age, sex, month of admission, duration of the disease and of hospitalization in days, severity of illness, complications, risk factors, laboratory results and therapy were analyzed. We examined 279 patients at our Clinic, and hospitalized 139 (49.8%). Influenza A /H1N1 virus was detected in 28 patients (20.1%) by the RT-PCR method. Among hospitalized patients, there were 54 children (38.8%) and 85 adults (61.2%). Risk factors were found in 30.9% of hospitalized patients, and the most common were chronic cardiac diseases and hypertension followed by chronic pulmonary diseases. The most common complication was pneumonia, found in 50 (36%) of our hospitalized patients. The number of patients treated in our intensive care unit was 9, and influenza A(H1N1) virus was detected in all of them. One patient died.

Keywords

pandemic influenza; epidemiology; clinical presentation; therapy; risk factors; complications

Hrčak ID:

77358

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77358

Publication date:

3.1.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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