COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENANTIOMORPHOUS DIFFERENCES IN COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIAS CLINICAL COURSE

Abstract

4894 medical records of patients with unilateral community-acquired pneumonias were randomly selected and studied for the purpose of searching for enantiomorphous differences in unilateral community-acquired pneumonia clinical course and their probable relations with gender, age-specific and season factors. In addition to the comparative analysis of routine laboratory and clinical data, the intensity of subjective symptoms typical for respiratory diseases was examined; cytological compositions of basal tracheobronchial secretion samples and pulmonary infiltration volumes were compared. 473 cases of enantiomorphous comparison were performed. It has been determined that the enantiomorphous differences are not strongly pronounced and apply only to some compared parameters (10.4% of all cases). The revealed enantiomorphous differences have considerable gender, season and - to a lesser extent - age-specific features; they are oftener observed in summer and autumn seasons and in young patients. The enantiomorphous differences are greatly related to the laboratory data which indicate the intensity of local and system inflammatory reaction.