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Query: UMLS:C0032285 (pneumonia)
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A retrospective analysis of the medical records of 1970 patients admitted to the intensive care unit of the Clinical Research Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh was made, to identify various complications and outcome. All patients were admitted with a history of diarrhoea. Children under 5 years old comprised 90% of these patients. 75% of these seriously ill patients recovered; 21% died; the remaining 4% were referred to other facilities for specialized treatment or left the hospital against advice. The principal causes of death were recorded as septicaemia (79%) and pneumonia (28%); multiple conditions contributing to the death were present in 90% of patients. None of the 405 deaths could be attributed to dehydration. Severe malnutrition was noted as an associated underlying disorder contributing to the death of 74% of the children. Recognition of these complications or illnesses in seriously ill diarrhoeal patients, and their timely and energetic management, are vital in achieving a low hospital mortality.
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PMID:Complications and outcome of disease in patients admitted to the intensive care unit of a diarrhoeal diseases hospital in Bangladesh. 178 Oct 10

Clinical and laboratory records at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, for the period 1976-1982 were reviewed to determine factors associated with fatal cases of measles. Pneumonia was found to be the commonest lethal complication of measles. Supervening infections by both viral (especially adenovirus and herpesvirus) and bacterial (especially Klebsiella species and Pseudomonas) agents played a prominent role in causing the deaths of children who had recently been infected with measles. Severe malnutrition was present with almost equal frequency among those dying of measles and those dying from other causes, but was significantly (P less than 0,02) less common in measles patients who survived. Peripheral lymphopenia and depletion of T-cell zones in the lymph nodes and spleen were more common in those who died from measles than in others.
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PMID:Factors associated with fatal cases of measles. A retrospective autopsy study. 387 96