The Effect of Sputum Culture Results on The Duration of Hospitalization in Patients with Bronchiectasis

Year 2019, Volume: 16 Issue: 3, 413 - 416, 25.12.2019

İclal Hocanlı , Mehmet Kabak , Barış Çil , Ahmet Doblan , İdris Kırhan

https://doi.org/10.35440/hutfd.625999

Abstract

Background: The
aim of this study is to investigate whether sputum culture results (treatment
revision according to culture results) have an effect on the duration of
hospitalization in patients who were followed up with the diagnosis of
bronchiectasis in our clinic.

Materials and Methods: The
laboratory and radiological data of 23 patients who were followed up with the
diagnosis of bronchiectasis in the chest diseases clinic between January
2018-December 2018 were analyzed retrospectively. Demographic features, the
duration of hospitalization, the used antibiotics and antibiotic changes
according to the culture results were recorded for all patients.  The duration of hospitalization of patients
with and without culture growth was compared. In addition, the culture growing
group was evaluated in itself according to the growing microorganism type in
terms of the duration of hospitalization.

Results: While 39.1% (9
patients) of the patients had culture growth, 60.9% (14 patients) had no
culture (14 patients). Klebsiella pneumonia was detected in the culture of 4
patients, pseudomonas aeruginosa in the culture of 4 patients and mycobacterium
tuberculosis in the culture of 1 patient. Although the duration of
hospitalization was longer in patients with (10.1 ± 5.1 days) than those
without culture growth (7.8 ± 5.5 days), there was no significant difference
between two groups (p= 0.135). However, when patients with culture growth were
compared according to the microorganism type; it was detected that patients
with pseudomonas aeruginosa growth in the culture had significantly longer
duration of hospitalization.

Conclusion: Pseudomonas
aeruginosa is one of the most common grow microorganisms in sputum cultures of
patients with bronchiectasis. This factor increases the duration of
hospitalization of patients.

Bronşektazi Tanılı Hastaların Balgam Kültür Sonuçlarının Hastanede Kalış Süresine Etkisi

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, kliniğimizde
bronşektazi tanısıyla takip edilmiş hastaların balgam kültür sonuçlarının
hastanede kalış süresi üzerine etkisinin olup olmadığını araştırmaktır. 

Materyal ve metod: Ocak 2018-aralık 2018 tarihleri arasında göğüs hastalıkları kliniğinde bronşektazi tanısyla takip edilen,  23 hastanın laboratuvar ve radyolojik verileri retrospektif olarak incelendi.

Bulgular: Hastaların %39,1' de 
kültürde üreme olurken (9 hasta), %60,1'de kültürde üreme olmadı (14
hasta). 4 hastanın kültüründe klebsiella pnömoni, yine 4 hastanın
kültüründe  psödomonas aeruginosa ve 1
hastanın kültüründe de  myocobacterıum
tuberculosis üredi.kültür üremesi olan hastalar ile kültür üremesi olmayan
hastalar hastane yatış süreleri karşılaştırıldı.Kültürde üremesi saptanan
hastalarda (10.1±5.1 gün), kültürde üremesi saptanmayan hastalara (7.8±5.5 gün)
göre hastane yatış süresi daha uzun olmakla beraber istatiksel olarak anlamlı
bir farklılık tespit edilmedi (p=0.135). Ancak
kültürde  psödomonas aeruginosa üremesi olanların hastanede kalış süresi daha
uzun ve istatiksel olarak ta anlamlı idi.

Sonuç: Bronşektazi tanılı hastalarda kolonizasyon ve/veya enfeksiyon
sık görülmektedir. Balgam kültürlerinde en sık üreyen etkenlerden biri pseudomonas aeruginosadır ve bu etken
hastane yatış sürelerini arttırmaktadır. Çalışmamızda az sayıda olgu olmasına
rağmen, literatür verilerine  benzer
sonuçlar elde edilmiştir. Ancak daha etkili değerlendirmeler yapabilmek için
hasta sayısının daha yoğun olduğu benzer çalışmalara ihtiyaç vardır.

Keywords

bronşektazi, balgam kültürü, enfeksiyon

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