Clinical manifestations and outcomes of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children less than two years in Colombia.

Clinical manifestations and outcomes of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children less than two years in Colombia. Indian Pediatr. 2020 Aug 29;: Authors: Buendia JA, Polack FP, Patino DG Abstract This retrospective study describes the epidemiology and identifies risk factors associated with severe complications in lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in a population of infants hospitalized in a tertiary care hospital in a tropical region of Colombia. A severe complication in RSV LRTI was defined as the presence of SpO2 ≤ 90% in the emergency room and/or pneumonia and/or atelectasis and/or sepsis and/or respiratory failure during hospitalization. RSV was detected in 193 (46.3%) of 417 patients with LRTI. The average hospital stay lasted for 5.9 days. Severe hypoxemia (SpO2≤ 90% in the emergency department) was resent in 57.5% of the patients. After controlling for potential confounders, comorbidities bronchopulmonary dysplasia, congenital heart disease, length of hospital stay, and alveolar infiltrates in X-ray were independent predictors of severe complications in RSV LRTI. PMID: 32893827 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Indian Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Indian Pediatr Source Type: research