• 1. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, East Courtyard of Si Chuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610100, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
YANG Xiaodong, Email: yang-xiaodong@163.com
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Objective To explorer the risk factors for acute exacerbation in patients with bronchiectasis within one year.Methods Four hundred and twenty-two patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis hospitalized were enrolled in The East Region of the People’s hospital of Sichuan between October 2014 and October 2016. The patients’ clinical data were collected, and follow-up began at the time of discharged. The study endpoint was the first acute exacerbation, all patients were followed-up for one year after discharged. The patients were classified into two groups by the occurrence of acute exacerbation or no occurrence. Logistic regression analysis was used to explore the risk factors for acute exacerbation with bronchiectasis.Results The age, sick time, body mass index (BMI) less than 18.5 kg/m2, smoking index, expectoration, hemoptysis, dyspnea, moist sounds, wheezing sounds, types of imaging, CT scores, lung lesion site, sputum culture, whether infected Pseudomonas aeruginosa, level of serum C-reactive protein (CRP), level of serum PCT, serum albumin, arterial carbon dioxide partial pressure, types of respiratory failure, combined with chronic cor pulmonale differed significantly between the two groups (P<0.05), while gender, history of Infection, smoking, cough, chest pain, fever, clubbed-finger, white blood cell counts, neutrophil counts, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, serum globulins, arterial oxygen partial pressure did not significantly differ (P>0.05). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis found that infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, BMI<18.5 kg/m2, high level of serum CRP, high level of arterial carbon dioxide partial pressure (PaCO2), high CT score with bronchiectasis, combination with chronic cor pulmonale were risk factors for acute exacerbation in patients with bronchiectasis (P<0.05).Conclusions Infection with pseudomonas aeruginosa, BMI < 18.5 kg/m2, high serum CRP level, high arterial blood PaCO2 level, high CT score with bronchiectasis and combination of chronic cor pulmonale are risk factors for acute aggravation within 1 year for patients with bronchiectasis. Doctors can identify these risk factors and intervene early, so as to reduce the acute exacerbation of bronchiectasis.

Citation: YANG Liqing, YANG Xiaodong, YANG Lijing, LU Qing, JI Jiaqi. Risk factors for acute exacerbation in patients with bronchiectasis. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020, 19(6): 543-547. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.201902004 Copy

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