Aims This study aimed to investigate the clinical and chest computed tomography (CT) features associated with clinical parameters for coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) in the capital of Turkey, Ankara. Materials and methods Epidemiological, clinical features, laboratory findings and radiological characteristics of 1563 hospitalised patients with COVID‐19 in Ankara were collected, reviewed and analysed in this study. The risk factors associated with disease severity were investigated. Results Non‐severe (1214; 77.7%) and severe cases (349; 22.3%) were enrolled in the study. Compared with the non‐severe group, the severe group were significantly older and had more comorbidities (ie, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease). Smoking was more common in the severe group. Severe patients had higher respiratory rates and higher incidences of cough and dyspnoea compared with non‐severe patients. Compared with the non‐severe patients, the severe patients had increased C‐reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and CRP/albumin ratio and decreased albumin. The occurrence rates of consolidation, subpleural sparing, crazy‐paving pattern, cavity, halo sign, reversed halo sign, air bronchogram, pleural thickening, micronodule, subpleural curvilinear line and multilobar and bilateral involvement in the CT finding of the severe patients were significantly higher than those of the non‐severe patients. Conclusions Many factors are related to the severity of COVID‐19, which can help clinicians judge the severity of the patient and evaluate the prognosis. This cohort study revealed that male sex, age (≥55 years), patients with any comorbidities, especially those with cardiovascular disease, dyspnoea, increased CRP, D‐dimer and NLR, and decreased lymphocyte count and CT findings of consolidation and multilobar involvement were predictors of severe COVID‐19.
Basilli dizanteri abdominal kramplar, ateş, kanlı mukuslu dışkı ile karakterize ishal tablosudur. Dışkı incelemesinde lökosit sayısında artış ve dışkı kültüründe üreme ile tanı konulan genellikle kendini sınırlayan bir enfeksiyona yol açar. Ciddi olgularda sıvı-elektrolit ve antibiyotik tedavisi gerekmektedir. Bu bildiride Shigella flexneri'ye bağlı ishali takiben akut böbrek yetmezliği gelişen, diyaliz gereksinimi olmadan siprofloksasin ve sıvı-elektrolit tedavisi ile düzelen 72 yaşında bir kadın hasta sunuldu.
Aims: Catheter-related bloodstream infections are important causes of mortality and morbidity. In this study, it was aimed to retrospectively determine the distribution of bacterial factors isolated from intra-catheter blood culture and antibiotic susceptibility rates of patients diagnosed with catheter infection in the intensive care unit of XXXXXXX Training and Research Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery and Neurosurgery. Methods: In the intensive care unit of XXXXXXX Training and Research Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery, and Neurosurgery, 79 bacteria isolated from intra-catheter blood cultures of patients diagnosed with catheter infection between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2022, were included in the study.Antibiotic susceptibility of the factors reproducing in catheter blood culture was obtained from the hospital information system. Antibiotic susceptibilities of bacteria isolated from intra-catheter culture were determined by the disc diffusion method or VITEK-2 automated system. Results: The frequency of factors reproducing from intra-catheter blood culture of patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit of cardiovascular surgery and neurosurgery were Enterococcus spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Escherichia. coli retrospectively. Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from intra-catheter blood cultures were resistant to ceftriaxone 75%, piperacillin-tazobactam 25%, amikacin 6.25%, but not to imipenem and meropenem. Antibiotic resistance rates of Staphylococcus aureus isolates isolated from intra-catheter blood cultures were as follows: 100% with penicillin, no resistance to vancomycin. In Escherichia coliisolate isolated from intra-catheter blood cultures, resistance to ceftriaxone was 6.3%, to piperacillin-tazobactam, 12.5%, to imipenem and meropenem, 16.6%, but not to amikacin. Acinetobacter baumanniiisolates isolated from intra-catheter blood culture showed 100% resistance to ceftriaxone, 100% to piperacillin-tazobactam, 85.7% to imipenem, 83.3% to meropenem, and no resistance to amikacin. In the Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolatesisolated from intra-catheter blood culture, resistance to ceftriaxone, piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem and meropenem was 100% and levofloxacin was 25%, while no resistance to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole was detected. Conclusion: Determining the antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria isolated from catheter culture will contribute to the determination of the appropriate treatment option in the empirical treatment of catheter infections in our hospital and contribute to decreasing in mortality and morbidity rates due to catheter infections.
Rino-orbito-serebral mukormikozis, Zygomycetes türü küf mantarlarının neden olduğu, mortalitesi ve morbidite oranı yüksek fırsatçı bir mantar enfeksiyonudur. Mukormikozis için en önemli risk faktörü kontrolsüz diyabet ve diyabetik ketoasidozdur. Bunun dışında; desferoksamin tedavisi, demir yüksekliği, immünosüpresif ilaçlar, kortikosteroid kullanımı diğer risk faktörleridir. Bu yazıda, geç tanı konulan rinoorbitoserebral mukormikozise bağlı olarak görme kaybı ve serebral apse gelişen 62 yaşında diyabetik bir erkek sunuldu. Hastaya cerrahi debridman ile birlikte lipozomal amfoterisin-B tedavisi uygulandı.
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