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Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: Respiratory tract infections remain a common problem in clinical practice with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Portugal, pneumonia was the third leading death cause in 2018. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing concern about the burden of respiratory diseases and preven...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9248254/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35481565 http://dx.doi.org/10.32074/1591-951X-306 |
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author | Gi, Andreia Gouveia, Rosa H. Real, Francisco Corte Carvalho, Lina |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Respiratory tract infections remain a common problem in clinical practice with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Portugal, pneumonia was the third leading death cause in 2018. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing concern about the burden of respiratory diseases and preventable risk factors. The present study started before the pandemic and its aim was to determine the occurrence of pneumonia/bronchopneumonia in a postmortem series and to characterize its circumstantial context. METHODS: A retrospective anatomopathological study was performed on cases with acute pneumonia/bronchopneumonia at the Medicolegal Portuguese Institute (2011-2017). RESULTS: In an autopsy series of 737 patients, 521 were male and 675 presented comorbidities. The mean age was 63.87 ± 19.8 years. The most common acquisition site was community (65.1%), as natural death (65.5%). Concerning the manner of death, most cases (48.0%) were sudden deaths, followed by accidents (29.2%). A statistically significant association was observed between the medicolegal etiology and the place of infection acquisition, with higher prevalence of natural obitus (91.0%) in community-acquired pneumonia/bronchopneumonia versus higher prevalence of violent obitus in hospital-acquired pneumonia/bronchopneumonia (82.1%) (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Forensic anatomopathological postmortem data may contribute to better understand community and hospital pulmonary infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-92482542022-07-13 Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic Gi, Andreia Gouveia, Rosa H. Real, Francisco Corte Carvalho, Lina Pathologica Original Article OBJECTIVE: Respiratory tract infections remain a common problem in clinical practice with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Portugal, pneumonia was the third leading death cause in 2018. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing concern about the burden of respiratory diseases and preventable risk factors. The present study started before the pandemic and its aim was to determine the occurrence of pneumonia/bronchopneumonia in a postmortem series and to characterize its circumstantial context. METHODS: A retrospective anatomopathological study was performed on cases with acute pneumonia/bronchopneumonia at the Medicolegal Portuguese Institute (2011-2017). RESULTS: In an autopsy series of 737 patients, 521 were male and 675 presented comorbidities. The mean age was 63.87 ± 19.8 years. The most common acquisition site was community (65.1%), as natural death (65.5%). Concerning the manner of death, most cases (48.0%) were sudden deaths, followed by accidents (29.2%). A statistically significant association was observed between the medicolegal etiology and the place of infection acquisition, with higher prevalence of natural obitus (91.0%) in community-acquired pneumonia/bronchopneumonia versus higher prevalence of violent obitus in hospital-acquired pneumonia/bronchopneumonia (82.1%) (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Forensic anatomopathological postmortem data may contribute to better understand community and hospital pulmonary infections. Pacini Editore srl 2022-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9248254/ /pubmed/35481565 http://dx.doi.org/10.32074/1591-951X-306 Text en © 2022 Copyright by Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica e Citopatologia Diagnostica, Divisione Italiana della International Academy of Pathology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access journal distributed in accordance with the CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) license: the work can be used by mentioning the author and the license, but only for non-commercial purposes and only in the original version. For further information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gi, Andreia Gouveia, Rosa H. Real, Francisco Corte Carvalho, Lina Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9248254/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35481565 http://dx.doi.org/10.32074/1591-951X-306 |
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