Retrospective Analysis of Hospitalized Neonates İn A Neonatal İntensive Care Unit Diagnosed As Pneumothorax
Hüseyin Yakında, Mehmet Aslan, Erdal Kurnaz, Ahmet Gündüz, Ramazan Özdemir, Ahmet Karadağ
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Abstract
Aim: Pneumothorax is one of the important etiologic factors in newborns that causes respiratory distress. Pneumothorax usually occurs in newborns under mechanical ventilation. Respiratory distress syndrome, meconium aspiration syndrome and resuscitation after birth may also cause pneumothorax. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed newborn who were hospitalized for pneumothorax in our newborn intensive care unit.
Material and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 56 cases who were hospitalized for pneumothorax in our newborn intensive care unit between 2008-2011. These cases were evaluated according to demographic characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, duration the hospitalization and prognosis. The diagnosis was made by chest x-rays. Cases were treated with chest tube drainage. For statistical analysis, Pearson Chi Square test and Fisher's Exact test were used and p
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