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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Perfil epidemiológico e clínico das meningites infecciosas em idosos, no Hospital de Doenças Tropicais – HDT/AA Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil, 2000 - 2006 / Epidemiological and clinical profile of the infectious meningitis in the elderly: a study of cases series in a reference hospital

Alvarenga, José Alberto 25 August 2008 (has links)
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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - José Alberto Alvarenga - 2008.pdf: 340716 bytes, checksum: e24f369f53383dc817cf234c17729275 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-25 / It is estimated that until the year 2020, in Brazil, 13 % of the population will be constituted by the elderly (population who are above 60 years old), counting 30 million people. The frequency and the gravity of the infectious diseases spread with age. Among these days, infectious diseases are the third cause of death after the sixty’s. The physical changes and the lack of immunological response in the elderly worsen day after day, favoring the infections’ gravity. Moreover, chronic diseases treated with immunosuppressor drugs and other, repeated hospitalizations and nutritional deficiency are addictive factors which explain this kind of diseases to grow worse in this specific population. This dissertation is about a retrospective essay with a descriptive analysis raising medical documents from patients with infectious meningitis in the Hospital de Doenças Tropicais (HDT), State of Goiás, Brazil, and aimed to evaluate the epidemiologic and clinical profile of the infectious meningitis in the elderly, the level of clinical suspicion and confirmation in health services in our State. About 110 cases of meningitis in elderly were notified between the years 2000 and 2006. From all cases, 64 (58,71%) were confirmed, 64,0% of non-specified infection meningitis, 14,06%, fungus meningitis (4,68%), pneumococcol meningitis (12,5%), tuberculosis meningitis (3,12%) and meningococcal meningitis(1,5%). The mortality was higher in non-specified meningitis (65,21%), and fungus, tuberculosis and pneumococcol meningitis presented the highest lethality. The long period between the clinical suspicion of meningitis, with 6,41 days until the diagnose was confirmed, delayed treatment and surely contributed to raise the number of the infections and deaths. The unsuitable medical graduation in elderly’s support has delayed diagnose, extending the interval between the beginning of the symptoms and the effective treatment, and so on, increasing the mortality index of this population. The proposal of this essay is to build a preferable attendance service for the elderly, with basic knowledge in infectious diseases in this particular population, favoring the fast diagnose and the effective treatment in order to reduce the mortality in this age group. / No Brasil estima-se que até o ano 2020 a população de idosos deva chegar a 30 milhões de pessoas (13% do total) e a esperança de vida alcançará 70,3 anos. A frequencia e a gravidade das doenças infecciosas aumentam com o envelhecimento e hoje representam a terceira causa de morte após os 60 anos. As alterações fisiológicas e a queda da função nos órgãos de resposta imune do idoso acentuam-se progressivamente, favorecendo a superveniencia das infecções. Além disso, as moléstias cronicas associadas ao tratamento com imunossupressores e outras drogas, as hospitalizações repetidas e a deficiencia nutricional são fatores suplementares que explicam a elevada freqüência das moléstias infecciosas nesta faixa etária. O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar o perfil clínico e epidemiológico das meningites infecciosas na população idosa, o nível de suspeição e de confirmação diagnóstica nos serviços de saúde do Estado de Goiás, mediante análise dos registros de prontuários de pacientes portadores de meningites infecciosas, internados no Hospital de Doenças Tropicais – (HDT) do Estado de Goiás, Brasil, referência regional para doenças transmissíveis. No período de 2000 a 2006 foram internados 110 pacientes com suspeita de meningite, sendo a doença confirmada em 64 (58,71%), de acordo com os critérios do SINAN-MS. Predominaram as meningites bacterianas não especificadas (64,02%), seguindo-se a pneumocócica (14,06%), viral (12,5%), as fúngicas (4,68%), a tuberculosa (3,12%) e a meningocócica (1,56%). O maior número de mortes ocorreu nas meningites não especificadas (65,21%). As meningites tuberculosas, fúngicas e pneumocócica apresentaram maior letalidade. Observou-se um período entre o início do quadro clínico e a confirmação do diagnóstico (média de 6,4 dias) nos pacientes do interior, situação que resultou em retardo na instituição do tratamento antimicrobiano adequado e em maior letalidade. Os dados do presente estudo mostram que o atendimento à saúde pouco voltado para os idosos resulta em delonga no diagnóstico e na instituição da terapeutica antimicrobiana adequada, responsáveis pela elevada mortalidade por doenças infecciosas nos idosos, destacadamente as meningites. Daí a necessidade de se construir uma rede de atendimento preferencial a pacientes idosos, com pessoal qualificado em doenças infecciosas, com vistas a diminuir o drástico impacto destes agravos nos idosos.

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