TY  - JOUR
TI  - Influenza or other respiratory viruses: does it matter as the cause of acute respiratory failure in the critically-ill patients?
AB  - Introduction: Respiratory virus infections may cause serious respiratory failure requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical features and the outcome in patients with acute respi-ratory failure (ARF) due to viral infections comparing etiological agents.Materials and Methods: ARF patients with positive viral serology were retros-pectively recruited. Cohort was evaluated with regard to subgroups as influ-enza and other respiratory viruses (ORV), as well as survivors and non-survivors.Results: Out of 938 admitted patients, 319 were followed as ARF and only 149 patients had viral respiratory panel results. In 49 patients with ARF, 52 positive viral results were detected and 47 patients with single positive viral isolates of either influenza or ORV were included. Among them, 62% had ORV with quite similar characteristics with influenza group apart from diabe-tes mellitus which was encountered more in influenza group (p= 0.02). Overall ICU mortality was 32% and there was no difference between the two groups (p= 0.42). Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score was independently associated with ICU mortality (OR: 1.25; 95% CI: 1.04-1.51; p= 0.02). Conclusion: This study emphasizes to consider the possibility of other respiratory viruses for the cause of ARF with similar characte-ristics and mortality as influenza species.
AU  - Tanriover, Mine Durusu
AU  - Ocal, Serpil
AU  - Halacli, Burcin
AU  - ortaç  ersoy, nazmiye ebru
AU  - Topeli, Arzu
AU  - Hancı, Pervin
DO  - 10.5578/tt.70350
PY  - 2020
JO  - Tüberküloz ve Toraks
VL  - 68
IS  - 4
SN  - 0494-1373
SP  - 388
EP  - 398
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/418566
ER  -