title: [Epidemiology of autopsy verified infection].
abstract: In a retrospective study of 35,220 autopsies performed from 1950 to 1984 in our department, septicaemia was found in 707 cases (2% of all autopsies). The incidence of pyaemia decreased after 1960, whereas that of septicaemia increased significantly. This increase was observed in surgical and medical departments due to patients suffering from neoplastic disease who died of septicaemia (40% of our cases). In the paediatric departments, however, mortality from septicaemia decreased slowly, but continuously. Age distribution revealed two peaks, one in infancy and one in patients older than 60 years. Over the past decade the mean age increased significantly (15 years on average). In blood cultures gram negative bacteria were found more often than gram positive strains.
authors.affiliation: Pathologisch Anatomisches Institut, Universität Innsbruck.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mikuz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kreczy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001317:Austria; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000401:mortality*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000401:mortality; D011693:Purpura / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000401:mortality; D014884:Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Epidemiologie der autoptisch verifizierten Sepsis.