Clinical observation of children with severe pneumonia

Objective To sum up the clinical characteristics of children with severe pneumonia, and in order to improve the dingnosis treatment and prognosis. Methods Restrospective analysis was carried out on the clinical manifestations signs basic diseases etiology check imaging of children with severe pneumonia who had been in the hospital for ten years, and with the same period,120 children with common pneumonia in hospital were compared with and analyzed. Results Among 193 case, boys was 127 cases, girls was 63 cases, with males to females rate of 2︰1.115 cases(60.0%)were aged 0 year to 3 years old.The onset of 125 cases (65.0%)were winter and spring. All patients had fever 98 cases(50.8%)with high temperature of 39-41℃, all patients suffered from respiratory symptoms, including 183 cases(94.8%)with cough,113 cases (58.5%)with breathing. All patients suffered from difficult breathing, shortness of breath on cyanosis(=cyanopathy),105 cases(54.3%)with wet lung rate,152 cases(78.7%)with respiratory insufficiency on respiratory failure,12 cases(6.2%)with acute respiratory distress syndrome,163 cases(84.5%)with heart failure,67 cases(34.7%)with abdominal distension,23 cases needed mechanical ventication.91 cases(47.2%) with antibodies positime for mycoplasma pneumoniae infection when testing servm virns antibody and respiratory virus antigen.20 cases(10.4%)were found to have positive antibody,conducting fluid culture,cultivate a positive strains of 31 cases(16.1%),including 7 cases(3.6%)of psendomonas aernginosa,6 cases(3.1%)of eschericria coli,6 cases(3.1%)of klebsiella pneumoniae,5 cases(2.6%)of enterobacter cloacae,3 cases(1.6%)of streptococlus pneumoniae,2 cases(1.0%)of viridans streptococci,1 case(0.5%)of hemolytic staphylococci,1 case(0.5%)of radiation agrobacterium,2 cases(1.0%)of candida mycoderma bacteria which was fungi.The imaging indicated.106 cases(54.9%)presented as lobi pulmonis or segmental large patches of dense increased shadom or pulmonary parenchymal inflammatory lesions the performance of lung interstitial inflammatory lesionsl(such as increased lung markings,fuzzy and with flocculant shadow etc)were 87 cases(33.2%). 30 cases(15.5%)suffered from pleural effusion,18 cases(9.3%)suffered a telectasis with in the chest,16 cases(8.3%)suffered from empyema. Conclusion Children with severe pneumonia had prone to heart failure respiratory failure, complication. The clinical manifestations of severe pneumonia is severe.Clinically suspected severe. Pneumonia should complete etiological and chest radiographic examination for early diagnosis and treatment. Key words: Severe pneumonia; Clinical characteristics; Etiology; Imaging; Child