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

Murilo Carlos Amorim de Britto MD PhD   ^*    Silvia Maria Mendes da Conceicao Silvestre MD MSc      Maria do Carmo Menezes Duarte MD MSc      Patricia Gomes de Matos Bezerra MD MSc   

^* IMIP – Paediatric Respiratory Diseases, Rua dos Coelhos, 300 Boa Vista Recife, Pernambuco 50070550, Brazil; Hospital Pediatrico de Angola – Paediatric ward, Luanda, Angola; IMIP – Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Rua dos Coelhos, 300 Boa Vista Recife, Pernambuco 50070550, Brazil; IMIP–Paediatric Respiratory Diseases, Rua dos Coelhos, 300 Boa Vista Recife, Pernambuco 50070550, Brazil

Correspondence to: Murilo Carlos Amorim de Britto, IMIP – Paediatric Respiratory Diseases, Rua dos Coelhos, 300 Boa Vista Recife, Pernambuco 50070550, Brazil Email: murilobritto{at}ig.com.br

In 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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