EXPERIMENTAL AND THERAPEUTIC MEDICINE 10: 2337-2344, 2015

Epidemiology and clinical features of segmental/lobar pattern Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: A ten-year retrospective clinical study JIAN GAO1*, BAOZHU YUE1*, HAITAO LI2, RONG CHEN1, CHUNLIAN WU1 and MILI XIAO3 1

Department of Pediatrics, Weifang Maternal and Child Health Hospital; 2Pulmonary Department, Weifang Chest Hospital, Weifang, Shandong 261011; 3Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, P.R. China Received October 19, 2014; Accepted October 1, 2015 DOI: 10.3892/etm.2015.2818

Abstract. Mycoplasma pneumoniae plays an important role in community-acquired pneumonia. However, epidemiological and clinical studies on the segmental/lobar pattern (S/L) radiographic‑pathologic subtype of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) are rare. The current study retrospectively analyzed the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pediatric MPP patients. A total of 1,933 children with MPP received treatment at a single hospital between 2000 and 2009, of which 684 (35.4%) were diagnosed with S/L‑MPP. The annual incidence of S/L‑MPP in children with MPP increased throughout the duration of this study (from 6.4 to 59.6%, P

lobar pattern Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: A ten-year retrospective clinical study.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae plays an important role in community-acquired pneumonia. However, epidemiological and clinical studies on the segmental/lobar pa...
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