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Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic
| dc.contributor.author | Gi, Andreia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Henriques de Gouveia, Rosa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Corte Real, Francisco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, Lina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-17T16:39:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-17T16:39:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Objective. Respiratory tract infections remain a common problem in clinical practice with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Portugal, pneumonia was the third leading death cause in 2018. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing concern about the burden of respiratory diseases and preventable risk factors. The present study started before the pandemic and its aim was to determine the occurrence of pneumonia/bronchopneumonia in a postmortem series and to characterize its circumstantial context. Methods. A retrospective anatomopathological study was performed on cases with acute pneumonia/bronchopneumonia at the Medicolegal Portuguese Institute (2011-2017). Results. In an autopsy series of 737 patients, 521 were male and 675 presented comorbidities. The mean age was 63.87 ± 19.8 years. The most common acquisition site was community (65.1%), as natural death (65.5%). Concerning the manner of death, most cases (48.0%) were sudden deaths, followed by accidents (29.2%). A statistically significant association was observed between the medicolegal etiology and the place of infection acquisition, with higher prevalence of natural obitus (91.0%) in community-acquired pneumonia/bronchopneumonia versus higher prevalence of violent obitus in hospitalacquired pneumonia/bronchopneumonia (82.1%) (p < 0.001). Conclusions. Forensic anatomopathological postmortem data may contribute to better understand community and hospital pulmonary infections. | pt_PT |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Gi, A., Gouveia, R. H., Corte Real, F., & Carvalho, L. (2022). Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic. Pathologica, 114(2), 146–151 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.32074/1591-951X-306 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0031-2983 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/41960 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica e Citopatologia Diagnostica | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Pneumonia | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Bronchopneumonia | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Postmortem study | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Genova (Italy) | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 151 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 2 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 146 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Pathologica | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 114 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Henriques de Gouveia | |
| person.familyName | Corte Real Gonçalves | |
| person.givenName | Rosa | |
| person.givenName | Francisco | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 4216-8817-F6C8 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 0B18-918A-80ED | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-6728-7603 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-1495-9362 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 6506051985 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 6603582554 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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