Despite the fact that BPP is a frequent and severe disease, there is minimal information regarding BPP in our city. We report here the result of 26-year prospective study in patients with BPP treated in our hospital, to assess local disease incidence, clinical, radiographic and microbiological features, as well as to evaluate factors related to mortality. Methods Study Design and Study Population This was a longitudinal, prospective observational study of adult patients with BPP evaluated at the Santamarina Hospital in the city of Tandil. The hospital is a 130-bed primary care community hospital. Tandil is a city with a population of 130,000 inhabitants located in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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