He added that Mrs Purcell's
bronchopneumonia was linked to her lying in the same position for an extended time on the dirty bed.
Common diagnoses referred to in medical records (N=454) Hospital HCM, HGM, Total, Diagnosis n (%) n (%) N (%)
Bronchopneumonia 60 (26.2) 106 (47.1) 166 (36.6) Malaria 20 (8.7) 35 (15.6) 55 (12.1) Fever 14 (6.1) 9 (4.0) 23 (5.1) Sepsis 14 (6.1) 7 (3.1) 21 (4.6) Acute gastroenteritis 17 (7.4) 3 (1.3) 20 (4.4) Multiple (undefined) 84 (36.7) 54 (24.0) 138 (30.4) Other * 20 (8.7) 11 (4.9) 31 (6.8) Total 229(100) 225(100) 454(100) HCM = Hospital Central de Maputo; HGM = Hospital Geral de Mavalane.
(7) et al reported lower (46.4%) incidence of H1N1
bronchopneumonia among females; 25% (n-7) of our patients were in the peripartum period and their mortality was 100%.
[5,6] However, patchy necrotizing
bronchopneumonia, pulmonary thrombo-emboli, bronchitis associated with diffuse alveolar damage should rise suspicious of Novel H1N1 infection.
The inquest heard how the 66-year-old died from
bronchopneumonia caused by a chest infection.
Her medical history revealed that she had been hospitalized with a diagnosis of bronchiolitis and/or
bronchopneumonia for five times during the last year.
Mercury died of
bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on November 24 in 1991.
He had died of
bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on November 24, 1991, only one day after publicly acknowledging he had the disease.
The clinical diagnoses of patients providing HBoV-positive samples included pneumonia (63.1%), bronchitis (14.9%),
bronchopneumonia (12.8%), and acute asthmatic
bronchopneumonia (9.2%).
She suffered a broken left hip and developed
bronchopneumonia as a result of the accident on May 14.
Post-mortem studies showed
bronchopneumonia that could have originated from aspiration.