Abstract

TAMAYO REUS, Caridad Maria; DIAZ TERAN, Daisy  and  LEYVA PEGUERO, Yileisy Esperanza. Clinical and radiographic aspects of condensing pneumonia in children under 5 years . MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.4, pp. 523-527. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive investigation of 150 children under 5 years with clinical and radiographic diagnosis of condensing pneumonia -- selected by means of a simple random sampling --, admitted in the Pneumology room and that of the Progressive Cares to the Severely ill Patient at the Children Southern Teaching Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January to December, 2012. In the series the variable age, sex, severity of the clinical pattern and associated complications were related to the results of the thorax X rays, according to topographical localization, and it was obtained that 66.6% of the patients presented located swelling in the right lung, predominant in all ages, the pleural effusion was the most frequent complication (8.0%) which was relevant in the children with a damaged left lung (16.6%). Although the condensing pneumonias prevailed in the right lung, the severity of the clinical pattern and the complications were more frequent in those who presented a swollen left lung

Keywords : children; condensing pneumonia; radiographic diagnosis; pleural effusion; pediatric hospitals.

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