Clinical and laboratory features of radiologic pneumonia in severely malnourished infants attending an urban diarrhea treatment center in Bangladesh.
We described clinical and laboratory features of infants having radiologic pneumonia with (cases) and without severe malnutrition (controls). Case fatality rate was greater in cases than controls (23% vs. 0%, P = 0.04). The sensitivity and specificity of fast breathing, lower chest wall indrawing, and nasal flaring in diagnosing pneumonia was poor among the cases.
Chisti
Mohammod Jobayer
MJ
Clinical Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. chisti@icddrb.org
Ahmed
Tahmeed
T
Faruque
Abu Syed Golam
AS
Abdus Salam
Mohammed
M
D001459:Bangladesh; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007228:Infant Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012119:Respiration; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014505:Urban Population