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Long-Term Follow-Up

KATHRYN A. HUXTABLE, MD; ARTHUR S. TUCKER, MD; RALPH J. WEDGWOOD, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1964;108(3):262-269.

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Increasing attention has been focused upon the critical problems of staphylococcal pneumonia in early childhood. Several excellent articles have discussed the epidemiology, clinical findings, and the immediate course of the disease.^1-9 Association with previous upper respiratory infection,³ frequent occurrence in infants less than six months of age,⁵ increasing yearly incidence since 1952,¹ higher incidence in winter months (October through May), and the disproportionately high number of cases caused by "resistant staphylococci"^1,8 have been described. Less information, however, is available on long-term follow-up for possible residual disability. One study¹⁰ reported residual radiographic abnormalities in 18% and recurrent pneumonia in 23% of their patients.

This study was undertaken to evaluate the long-term prognosis of staphylococcal pneumonia in childhood and was designed to determine:

1. The incidence of permanent radiographic changes
   
2. Predisposition to recurrent pneumonia
   
3. Incidence of chronic cough or exercise intolerance
   
4. Incidence of
   

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

Ralph J. Wedgwood, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash 98105.

Footnotes
Received for publication March 30, 1964.

Currently Fellow in Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, (Dr. Huxtable), Associate Professor of Radiology, Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Dr. Tucker), Currently Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle (Dr. Wedgwood).

This study was supported in part by a training grant in pediatric microbiology (5TI AI-227-02).

We are most indebted to the private pediatricians who allowed us to include their patients in this series and who subsequently assisted us in the follow-up study.

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