Table 3.
Patients’ data in Group A (with sepsis).
| Case | Age (days) |
Sex | Congenital malformation | Infection site | General Symptoms | WBC counts (x10^9) |
CRP (mg/L) |
Organism in Blood culture | Concurrent systemic infection | Open drainage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | M | PDA | Knee, femur | Fever | 18.73 | 50.01 | MRSA | / | No |
| 2 | 32 | F | / | Shoulder, humerus | Irritability, polypnea | 29.01 | 188.02 | MRSA | Pneumonia, cerebritis | No |
| 3 | 27 | F | Subependymal cyst | Elbow, humerus, knee | Polycardia | 20.93 | 17.25 | / | myocarditis | No |
| 4 | 61 | F | ASD | Hip, femur, humerus | Poor feeding, lethargy, bradycardia | 34.51 | 185.4 | MRSA | Myocarditis, Pneumonia, cerebritis | yes |
| 5 | 25 | M | ASD | Shoulder, humerus | Fever, polypnea | 12.29 | 72 | MRSA | Pneumonia, bronchitis | yes |
| 6 | 27 | F | / | Knee, femur | Lethargy, Diarrhea, polypnea |
23.79 | 96.9 | Klebsiella pneumoniae | Pneumonia, cerebritis, enteritis | No |
| 7 | 23 | F | / | Shoulder, humerus | Fever | 16.62 | 30.6 | Bacillus paratyphosus | / | No |
| 8 | 16 | F | / | Shoulder, humerus | Fever | 18.52 | 11.1 | MSSA | / | yes |
| 9 | 19 | M | / | Femur | Fever | 11.6 | 65.42 | Klebsiella pneumoniae | / | No |
PDA, patent ductus arteriosus; ASD, atrial septal defect.