Clinical analysis of 125 cases with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To investigate and analyze clinical symptoms, auxiliary examination results, therapeutic methods and the prognosis of the pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children.@*Methods@#The clinical data including symptoms, auxiliary examination results, therapeutic methods of 125 children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in our hospital from September 2016 to February 2017 were retrospectively analyzed.@*Results@#Among the 125 children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, the main symptoms were cough (100%) and fever (68%) and some cases accompanied by different extra-pulmonary complications. Varying degrees of changes were found from all the children’s abnormal chest X-ray films.@*Conclusions@#The symptoms of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children were serious, with slight clinical signs and varying degrees of change of the X-ray films. Early standardized application of macrolide antibiotics was beneficial for treatment.