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Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital
OBJECTIVE: To find out frequency of various complications in children admitted with Enteric Fever at a tertiary care hospital. METHODS: This was prospective cross sectional study, carried out in the Pediatric Medicine department of The Children’s Hospital Lahore from Dec 2014 to March 2017. Children...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6191769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30344560 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.345.15262 |
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author | Iftikhar, Aisha Bari, Attia Jabeen, Uzma Bano, Iqbal |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To find out frequency of various complications in children admitted with Enteric Fever at a tertiary care hospital. METHODS: This was prospective cross sectional study, carried out in the Pediatric Medicine department of The Children’s Hospital Lahore from Dec 2014 to March 2017. Children of both genders with age range of 6 months to 16 years diagnosed as enteric fever on the basis of clinical features and positive Typhidot, or blood culture were included in the study. All 180 patients were scrutinized for all possible complications. Where ever required and feasible appropriate and relevant investigations were done to document complications. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 20. RESULTS: Mean age of children was 7.2±3.38, majority 94 (52.2%) were 5-10 years old. Out of 180 patients, complications were noted in 58 (32.2%). Neurological complications 30.7% encompassed maximum complications followed by hepatobiliary 24.61%, abdominal 16.92% hematological 9.23%, bone and joints 7.69%, respiratory system 6.1% and cardiovascular system 4.41%. Mortality rate was 1.6%. Thrombocytopenia and leucopenia were significantly associated with complications with p value of 0.002 and 0.003 respectively. CONCLUSION: Enteric fever is causing our children to suffer by its numerous perplexing and fatal complications. The most vulnerable age for enteric fever and its complication is 5-10 years. To combat these issues large scale vaccination remains promising option at least in most susceptible age group. |
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spelling | pubmed-61917692018-10-19 Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital Iftikhar, Aisha Bari, Attia Jabeen, Uzma Bano, Iqbal Pak J Med Sci Original Article OBJECTIVE: To find out frequency of various complications in children admitted with Enteric Fever at a tertiary care hospital. METHODS: This was prospective cross sectional study, carried out in the Pediatric Medicine department of The Children’s Hospital Lahore from Dec 2014 to March 2017. Children of both genders with age range of 6 months to 16 years diagnosed as enteric fever on the basis of clinical features and positive Typhidot, or blood culture were included in the study. All 180 patients were scrutinized for all possible complications. Where ever required and feasible appropriate and relevant investigations were done to document complications. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 20. RESULTS: Mean age of children was 7.2±3.38, majority 94 (52.2%) were 5-10 years old. Out of 180 patients, complications were noted in 58 (32.2%). Neurological complications 30.7% encompassed maximum complications followed by hepatobiliary 24.61%, abdominal 16.92% hematological 9.23%, bone and joints 7.69%, respiratory system 6.1% and cardiovascular system 4.41%. Mortality rate was 1.6%. Thrombocytopenia and leucopenia were significantly associated with complications with p value of 0.002 and 0.003 respectively. CONCLUSION: Enteric fever is causing our children to suffer by its numerous perplexing and fatal complications. The most vulnerable age for enteric fever and its complication is 5-10 years. To combat these issues large scale vaccination remains promising option at least in most susceptible age group. Professional Medical Publications 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6191769/ /pubmed/30344560 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.345.15262 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Iftikhar, Aisha Bari, Attia Jabeen, Uzma Bano, Iqbal Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
title | Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
title_full | Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
title_fullStr | Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
title_full_unstemmed | Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
title_short | Spectrum of complications in childhood Enteric Fever as reported in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
title_sort | spectrum of complications in childhood enteric fever as reported in a tertiary care hospital |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6191769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30344560 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.345.15262 |
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