The effect of sociodemographic and clinical features on mortality in patients with diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia
| Autor: | Aytekin Oguz, Mehmet Nuri Ozer, Mumtaz Takir, Erdal Akyer, Mehmet Uzunlulu, Osman Kostek |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Aspiration pneumonia
medicine.medical_specialty internal medicine clinic 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus medicine Dementia In patient 030212 general & internal medicine business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Mortality rate medicine.disease Comorbidity mortality comorbidity chemistry Uric acid Original Article business General Economics Econometrics and Finance |
| Zdroj: | Northern Clinics of Istanbul |
| ISSN: | 2536-4553 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the sociodemographic and clinical chracteristics of patients hospitalized with aspiration pneumonia in internal medicine clinics, and to determine the incidence and parameters of mortality among these patients. METHODS: Patients over the age of 18 years who were hospitalized in clinics of internal medicine between Janu- ary 1, 2010 and January 1, 2013 (115 male, 89 female; mean age: 77±13 years; patients aged 65 years and over, 88.2%; average duration of hospitalization, 11±9 days) were evaluated retrospectively and consecutively. The incidence of mortality, nutritional status at admission, comorbidity frequency, haematological and biochemical data and their relationship with mortality were evaluated. RESULTS: At admission, 85% of the patients were fed through oral route, while 15% of them were fed through PEG. There was no relation between nutritional status of the patients (oral, nasogastric tube or PEG) at admission, and development of aspiration pneumonia. Commonly seen comorbidities were dementia (49%), hypertension (43%), cerebrovascular accident (42%), and diabetes mellitus (31%) respectively. The mortality rate was 24.5% (in first three days, 56%). A correlation was found between mortality and increase in neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and increased uric acid rate (for both p |
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