Imaging Findings in Patients With H1N1 Influenza A Infection

imaging findings in patients with h1n1 influenza a infection

Imaging Findings in Patients With H1N1 Influenza A Infection

BACKGROUND Swine influenza (H1N1) is a very contagious respiratory infection and World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert level to phase 6 (pandemic). The study of clinical and laboratory manifestations as well as radiologic imaging findings helps in its early diagnosis. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the imaging findings of patients with documented H1N1 infectio...

Chest imaging findings in children with influenza A H1N1.

OBJECTIVE To assess imaging findings at presentation in children diagnosed with influenza A (H1N1) infection. METHODS This is a retrospective observational cohort study conducted at The Children's Hospital affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China between September 2009 and March 2010. Nasopharyngeal swabs and bronchial aspirate samples from 81 children with acute respiratory infections...

Autopsy findings in eight patients with fatal H1N1 influenza.

A novel H1N1 influenza A virus emerged in April 2009, and rapidly reached pandemic proportions. We report a retrospective observational case study of pathologic findings in 8 patients with fatal novel H1N1 infection at the University of Michigan Health Systems (Ann Arbor) compared with 8 age-, sex-, body mass index-, and treatment-matched control subjects. Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) in acute...

Initial HRCT findings of novel influenza A (H1N1) infection

OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to describe the presentation and illustrate the imaging features of chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of patients with novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infection. METHODS Data were collected from 163 hospitalized patients between November 2009 and March 2011, who fulfilled the clinical criteria for H1N1 influenza infection and underwent HRCT ex...