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Corticosteroids May Have Negative Effects on the Management of Patients with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome: A Case–Control Study

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العنوان: Corticosteroids May Have Negative Effects on the Management of Patients with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome: A Case–Control Study
المؤلفون: Takeshi Kawaguchi, Kunihiko Umekita, Atsushi Yamanaka, Seiichiro Hara, Tetsuro Yamaguchi, Eisuke Inoue, Akihiko Okayama
المصدر: Viruses, Vol 13, Iss 5, p 785 (2021)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Microbiology
مصطلحات موضوعية: severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, viral hemorrhagic fever, prognostic factor, corticosteroid, Microbiology, QR1-502
الوصف: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging viral hemorrhagic fever in China, Korea, and Japan. To date, no standardized treatment protocol for SFTS has been established. Corticosteroids (CS) may be administered to patients with SFTS and hemophagocytic syndrome, but its effectiveness and safety are still debatable. We conducted a retrospective case series review at four medical facilities in Miyazaki, Japan. Based on the medical records, clinical data, including the patients background, symptoms, physical findings, laboratory data at initial presentation, treatment, and outcome, were compared between the CS-treated and the non-CS-treated group. A total of 47 patients with confirmed SFTS in each hospital were enrolled in this study; there were 14 fatal cases and 33 nonfatal cases. The case fatality ratio was 29.8%. After adjusting patients’ background by propensity score matching, the case fatality ratio was higher (p = 0.04) and complications of secondary infections, including invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, tended to be more frequent (p = 0.07) in the CS-treated group than in the non-CS-treated group. These data suggested that administration of CS to patients with SFTS should be carefully considered.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1999-4915
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/5/785; https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4915
DOI: 10.3390/v13050785
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/973f8dfc595c4047b245e540edabe7ce
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.973f8dfc595c4047b245e540edabe7ce
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19994915
DOI:10.3390/v13050785