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Title: | Full blood count values as a predictor of poor outcome of pneumonia among HIV-infected patients |
Author: | Camon, Silvia Quiros López, Carmen Saubí, Narcís Moreno Camacho, Ma. Asunción Marcos, Ma. Angeles Eto, Yoshiki Rofael, S. Monclús Cols, Ester Brown, James McHugh, Timothy D. Mallolas Masferrer, Josep Perelló, Rafael |
Keywords: | Pneumònia adquirida a la comunitat Persones seropositives Anàlisi de sang Community-acquired pneumonia HIV-positive persons Analysis of blood |
Issue Date: | 19-Apr-2018 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Abstract: | Background To evaluate the predictive value of analytical markers of full blood count that can be assessed in the emergency department for HIV infected patients, with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Methods Prospective 3-year study including all HIV-infected patients that went to our emergency department with respiratory clinical infection, more than 24-h earlier they were diagnosed with CAP and required admission. We assessed the different values of the first blood count performed on the patient as follows; total white blood cells (WBC), neutrophils, lymphocytes (LYM), basophils, eosinophils (EOS), red blood cells (RBC), hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, red blood cell distribution width (RDW), platelets (PLT), mean platelet volume, and platelet distribution width (PDW). The primary outcome measure was 30-day mortality and the secondary, admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). The predictive power of the variables was determined by statistical calculation. Results One hundred sixty HIV-infected patients with pneumonia were identified. The mean age was 42 (11) years, 99 (62%) were male, 79 (49%) had ART. The main route of HIV transmission was through parenteral administration of drugs. Streptococcus pneumonia was the most frequently identified etiologic agent of CAP The univariate analysis showed that the values of PLT (p < 0.009), EOS (p < 0.033), RDW (p < 0.033) and PDW (p < 0.09) were predictor of mortality, but after the logistic regression analysis, no variable was shown as an independent predictor of mortality. On the other hand, higher RDW (OR = 1.2, 95% CI 1.1-1.4, p = 0.013) and a lower number of LYM (OR 2.2, 95% CI 1.1-2.2; p = 0.035) were revealed as independent predictors of admission to ICU. Conclusion Red blood cell distribution and lymphocytes were the most useful predictors of disease severity identifying HIV infected patients with CAP who required ICU admission. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12879-018-3090-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3090-0 |
It is part of: | BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018, vol. 18, num. 1, p. 189 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/132924 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3090-0 |
ISSN: | 1471-2334 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) Articles publicats en revistes (Fonaments Clínics) |
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