tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Transpl Infect Dis. 2012 Sep 24. doi: 10.1111/tid.12005. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza A H1N1/2009 infection in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients.
Gavald? J, Cabral E, Alonso E, Perez-Romero P, P?rez A, Quintero J, Campins M, Vilalta R, Alonso A, Len O, Navarro M, Nieto J, Jara P, Charco R, Pahissa A, Cordero E.
Source
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Spain.
Abstract
AIM AND METHOD:
The aim of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of pandemic influenza A H1N1/2009 (pH1N1) infection, in a retrospective cohort of pediatric patients with kidney and/or liver transplant and confirmed pH1N1 infection from June to December 2009, diagnosed in 2 Spanish teaching hospitals.
RESULTS:
Forty-nine patients were included. Pneumonia was diagnosed in 4 patients (8.2%), and 3 of them required respiratory support. There were no related deaths.
CONCLUSION:
Antiviral treatment within 48 h was associated with a lower likelihood of pneumonia (0/38, 0%) than treatment started after 48 h (4/11, 36.3%) (P < 0.01).
? 2012 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
PMID:
22998763
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22998763
Influenza A H1N1/2009 infection in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients.
Gavald? J, Cabral E, Alonso E, Perez-Romero P, P?rez A, Quintero J, Campins M, Vilalta R, Alonso A, Len O, Navarro M, Nieto J, Jara P, Charco R, Pahissa A, Cordero E.
Source
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Spain.
Abstract
AIM AND METHOD:
The aim of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of pandemic influenza A H1N1/2009 (pH1N1) infection, in a retrospective cohort of pediatric patients with kidney and/or liver transplant and confirmed pH1N1 infection from June to December 2009, diagnosed in 2 Spanish teaching hospitals.
RESULTS:
Forty-nine patients were included. Pneumonia was diagnosed in 4 patients (8.2%), and 3 of them required respiratory support. There were no related deaths.
CONCLUSION:
Antiviral treatment within 48 h was associated with a lower likelihood of pneumonia (0/38, 0%) than treatment started after 48 h (4/11, 36.3%) (P < 0.01).
? 2012 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
PMID:
22998763
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22998763