ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2018
Characteristics and outcome of ill critical patients with influenza A infection.
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- The epidemiology of seasonal influenza after the 2009 influenza pandemic in Africa: a systematic review.African health sciences · 2020Pooled it
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- Severe influenza A in a Tunisian ICU sentinel SARI centre: Epidemiological and clinical features.PloS one · 2022Article
- Pregnancy and pandemics: Interaction of viral surface proteins and placenta cells.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2021Review
- Assessment of the Association of COPD and Asthma with In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with COVID-19. A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Clinical Characteristics and CT Findings in 148 Non-COVID-19 Influenza-Like Illness Cases: A Retrospective Control Study.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionTo describe all patients admitted to Tunisian intensive care unit with a diagnosis of influenza A/H1N1 virus infection after the 2009 influenza pandemic and to analyse their characteristics, predictors of complications and outcome.
methodsAll patients with influenza > 18-years-old hospitalized to the ICU department of Tunisian University hospital of Sousse, between December 1, 2009 and March 31, 2016, with a positive influenza A/H1N1/09 reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from a nasopharyngeal specimen were included, were included.
results40 cases were admitted to intensive care units. During the reporting period, 22 deaths in intensive care units (55%) were reported, the median age was 53 years (IQR 37-61), 24 (61%) were male, The median scores SAPS II and SOFA were respectively 29 (IQR 23-36) and 6 (IQR 3-10), 27% had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), 33.3% diabetic and no patients were vaccinated against influenza A. The cause of admission was in 72.5% of the cases was hypoxemic pneumonae. By using a logistic regression, we found after adjustment to age, that acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (OR = 27; 95%CI: 3.62-203.78) was the only factor significantly associated with severe outcomes of the cases.
conclusionPatients in the first post pandemic season were significantly older and more frequently had underlying medical conditions. Multivariate analysis showed that older male patients with chronic lung disease were at increased risk for a severe clinical outcome.
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