[Pertussis and it complications-analysis of hospitalized patients in Hamburg 1950-1970 (author's transl)].
From 1950 to 1970 in Hamburg, 9240 patients under 15 years of age were treated as inpatients for pertussis. 1674 patients had pneumonia due to pertussis, 114 had pertussis encephalopathies, and 41 seizures. The fatality from pneumonia went from 2,26% (1950-1960) to 0,4% (1961-1970). Fatality from encephalopathy was less influenced (24% respectively, 17,9%). The mild clinical course of pertussis is also reflected in the reduced number of hospitalizations due to pertussis (1956, 3,7%; 1970, 0,8%). Permanent damage from complications due to pertussis was seen in 0,7% of survivors from pertussis pneumonia and in 3,4% after pertussis encephalopathy.
D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality
Pertussis und ihre Komplikationen-Eine Analyse der Krankenhausaufnahmen in Hamburg 1950 bis 1970