Mycoplasma pneumonia in 30 cases.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Mycoplasma pneumonia in 30 cases [Paper Keywords] pneumonia, mycoplasma, MP-IgM [Abstract] Objective: To investigate the clinical features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and prognosis. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 30 cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, clinical manifestations, laboratory examinations, pulmonary complications and treatment outcome results: age lt;5 years old accounted for 43.3%, 5 to 14 years of 56.7% detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae IgM (MP-IgM were positive chest X-ray changes and the emergence of many early lesions involving the two lower lung to the lower right lung is more inconsistent with the signs, erythromycin treatment is effective. Conclusion: Mycoplasma pneumonia incidence trend of younger age, almost every fever, cough, pulmonary signs may be obvious, part of the damage associated with other systems. blood WBC may be normal, However, the majority of mononuclear cells increased, CRP slightly increased majority, suspected cases should be doing X-ray and MP-IgM test, macrolide antibiotics, results were satisfactory. Mycoplasma pneumonia is currently showing an increasing trend, due to its clinical presentation and imaging findings varied course of varying lengths, easily misdiagnosed as bacterial or viral infections, the Court now to October 2008 were treated 30 cases of Mycoplasma pneumonia for analysis, its clinical features and prognosis. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General Information 30 cases are in line with the typical diagnostic criteria for mycoplasma pneumonia, Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibody were positive (1:80 or more, of which 12 males and 18 females ranging in age from 1 to 5 years in 13 cases (43.3%, 5 to 14 years 17 (56.7% over the same period the number of 180 cases hospitalized with pneumonia, mycoplasma pneumonia accounted for 16.7%. 1.2 Clinical manifestations The patients were fever, cough, lung and wet rales could be heard 14 cases, 46.7%, the average leng