Clinical analysis of hospital acquired mycoplasma pneumoniae infection after cardiac surgery: a case series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) is a common pathogen of community-acquired respiratory infections. The clinical characteristics hospital-acquired MP infections are rarely reported in the literature. Our ward is mainly responsible for the management of patients during the perioperative period of cardiac surgery. Several patients had fever during the improvement of their condition after cardiac surgery, and the effect of upgrading antibiotics and increasing the antibacterial spectrum was not good.

Methods

Using inpatient data of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, we conducted a retrospective case series study of hospital-acquired MP infection after cardiac surgery from January 2015 to December 2020 to investigate the clinical characteristics. Clinical data wa

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840008 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature