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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Osteoarthritis in the neonate: risk factors and outcome
Autores: | Berberian,Griselda; Firpo,Verónica; Soto,Adriana; Lopez Mañan,Julio; Torroija,Cecilia; Castro,Graciela; Polanuer,Pablo; Espinola,Camilo; Piñeiro,José Luis; Rosanova,María Teresa.
Data: | 2010-08-01
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Osteoarthritis; Neonate; Staphylococcus aureus.
Resumo: | OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to identify the clinical, radiological, and bacteriological features, risk factors, and outcome of neonates with bone and joint infections. STUDY DESIGN: Observational, retrospective, and analytical study of 77 patients less than 2 months of age, admitted to a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the diagnosis of bone or joint infection, based on clinical, radiological, and microbiological criteria. RESULTS: Seventy-seven patients with 99 acute osteoarthritis foci in a 16 year period were included in the study. Risk factors for infection could be identified in 69% of the patients. The hip was the most frequent. Staphylococcus aureus was the main isolated microorganism. Twenty-nine infants (38%) had sequelae. Hip involvement, culture positive, and Staphylococcus aureus isolation were risk factors associated with sequelae. CONCLUSION: Osteoarticular infection is unusual in the neonate; however it is associated with an elevated incidence of sequelae. This mandates for a high degree of suspicion to diagnose this potentially disabling entity.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000400018
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702010000400018
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.14 n.4 2010
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess