• Tropical doctor · Apr 2008

    Clinical profile of pleural empyema and associated factors with prolonged hospitalization in paediatric tertiary centre in Angola, Luanda.

    • Murilo Carlos Amorim de Britto, Silvia Maria Mendes da Conceicao Silvestre, Maria do Carmo Menezes Duarte, and Patricia Gomes de Matos Bezerra.
    • IMIP - Paediatric Respiratory Diseases, Rua dos Coelhos, 300 Boa Vista Recife, Pernambuco 50070550, Brazil. murilobritto@ig.com.br
    • Trop Doct. 2008 Apr 1;38(2):118-20.

    AbstractIn a case series of 152 children aged from 2 to 132 months will pleural emphema from a paediatric tertiary hospital in Luanda, Angola between September 2004 and March 2005, the authors found a high prevalence of anaemia and malnutrition. The most prevalent bacteria in pleural fluid were: D pneumoniae, Haemophyllus and S aureus. The median for hospital stay was 25 days. The lethality was 7.8% and was not statistically associated with malnutrition, although this variable was associated, in multivariate analysis, with prolonged hospitalization time.

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