¿Existe una relación entre la gastroenteritis rotavirus positivo y los grupos sanguíneos ABO? Estudio retrospectivo de cohorte
Autor: | Mervan Bekdas, Sevil Bilir Goksugur, Fatih Demircioğlu, Beyhan Kucukbayrak, Erol Kısmet |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry viruses Incidence (epidemiology) virus diseases Retrospective cohort study Acute gastroenteritis Rotavirus gastroenteritis medicine.disease_cause fluids and secretions Rotavirus Internal medicine ABO blood group system Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Immunology Severity of illness medicine business Cohort study |
Zdroj: | Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria. 112 |
ISSN: | 0325-0075 |
DOI: | 10.5546/aap.2014.345 |
Popis: | Introduction. Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children. There is only a few clinical studies about the relationship between rotavirus gastroenteritis and ABO blood groups. Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of blood groups, if any present, in the incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis, and the severity of the gastroenteritis. Methods. The file records of babies born in our hospital and diagnosed with acute gastroenteritis in their follow up were investigated retrospectively. Results. The study was conducted with 219 (36.3%) rotavirus positive and 383 (63.6%) rotavirus negative patients. The A blood group was detected more commonly in the rotavirus positive group compared to the rotavirus negative group (50.6 vs. 42.2%, p= 0.047). Hospitalization rates of the cases with rotavirus gastroenteritis among children with the A blood group (30.6 vs. 8%, p=˂0.001) were significantly higher. Conclusions. Rotavirus gastroenteritis was determined to be more common in children with A blood group. The hospitalization rates of such patients were detected to be higher. Therefore, rotavirus gastroenteritis among children with blood |
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