Pediatric Pneumonia

Pediatric Pneumonia-The classification of children with pneumonia

Unable to take into account the etiology, pathology and clinical characteristics of children with pneumonia are as yet no ideal classification method.

Now commonly used include:

(A) pathological classification according to anatomic site is divided into: bronchial pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, interstitial pneumonia.

(B) The etiology 1. Viral pneumonia after a large number of studies have proven that syncytial virus ranks first, followed by 3,7,11,21-type adenovirus, influenza virus and parainfluenza virus type 1,2,3, other still measles virus, intestinal virus, cytomegalovirus virus.

2. Bacterial pneumonia with pneumococcus, streptococcus, staphylococcus, gram-negative bacilli (Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.) and anaerobic bacteria and so on.

3. Mycoplasma pneumonia Mycoplasma pneumonia based.

4. Chlamydia pneumoniae Chlamydia trachomatis-based.

5. Fungal pneumonia, candidiasis, aspergillosis, cryptococcosis, organizational brains bacteria, the ball-borne spores.

6. Protozoan Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the main.

7. Non-infectious causes of pneumonia caused by aspiration pneumonia, eosinophilic pneumonia, hypostatic pneumonia.

(C) the course of the disease classification acute (within 1 month), persistent (1-3 months), chronic (3 months or more).

(D) cases classified as

1. Mainly mild respiratory symptoms, no systemic symptoms of poisoning.

2. In addition to the serious severe respiratory involvement, the other systems were also involved, systemic poisoning symptoms.