Table 1.
Summary of patients' characters and clinical records.
| AVP (n = 16) | MPP (n = 21) | T (n = 15) | p–value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kruskal-Wallis test | AVP-vs.-MPP | AVP-vs.-T | MPP-vs.-T | ||||
| CHARACTERISTICS | |||||||
| Gender | 0.143 | 0.571 | 0.433 | 0.106 | |||
| Female | 6 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| Male | 10 | 10 | 12 | ||||
| Age (years)# | 1.6 (0.4~4.0) | 4.5 (0.8~9.6) | 2.5 (0.3~6.7) | 0.000 | 0.004 | 0.874 | 0.021 |
| Delivery mode | 0.199 | 0.921 | 0.171 | 0.282 | |||
| Cesarean section | 8 | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Vaginally born | 8 | 12 | 12 | ||||
| Feed pattern | 0.163 | 0.680 | 0.045 | 0.385 | |||
| Breast feed | 14 | 16 | 8 | ||||
| Breast feed + Milk feed | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Milk feed | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| Family history of allergy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.289 | 1.000 | 0.483 | 0.417 |
| History of pneumonia | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0.115 | 0.066 | 0.685 | 0.287 |
| Asthma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| CLINICAL RECORDS | |||||||
| Lung consolidation, atelectasis, infiltration | 16 | 21 | 0 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Hospitalization length (days) # | 12.3 (7~21) | 9.1 (4~16) | 7.7 (2~13) | 0.010 | 0.089 | 0.040 | 0.479 |
| Cough | 16 | 19 | 14 | 0.620 | 0.500 | 0.484 | 1.000 |
| Fever | 16 | 16 | 2 | 0.000 | 0.680 | 0.045 | 0.385 |
| Wheezing | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0.024 | 0.066 | 1.000 | 0.029 |
| Fever duration (days) # | 16.6 (4~38) | 11.8 (0~30) | 1 (0~14) | 0.000 | 0.591 | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Mean of peak temperature (°C) | 40.1 | 39.7 | 39.2 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| CRP (<0.499 mg/l) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0.549 | 1.000 | 0.458 | 0.465 |
| PCT (<0.5 ng/ml) | 5/11* | 21 | 3/4 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Eosinophil (0.5–5%) | 4 | 12 | 8 | 0.549 | 1.000 | 0.458 | 0.465 |
The normal reference ranges of CRP, PCT and Eosinophil values are <0.499 mg/l, <0.5 ng/ml, and 0.5–5%, according to the laboratory detection. “#,” measure with mean (min ~ max); “a/b
*
” means normal/detection number; AVP, Adenoviral Pneumonia; MPP, Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia; T, Tracheomalacia; CRP, C-reactive protein; PCT, Procalcitonin; NA, Not available.