High Rates of All-cause and Gastroenteritis-related Hospitalization Morbidity and Mortality among HIV-exposed Indian Infants

Table 3 List of reasons for 381 hospitalizations among 737 HIV-exposed infants at 12 months of life in Pune, India

	N (%)		N (%)
Infectious	215 (56.0)	Non-infectious	166 (44.0)
Gastroenteritis	67 (17.6)	Hyperbilirubinemia	35 (9.2)
Meningitis or sepsis	44 (11.5)	Abnormal chemistry values†	32 (8.4)
Pneumonia	25 (6.6)	Neutropenia	21 (5.5)
Rash without fever	19 (5.0)	Anemia	12 (3.1)
Syphilis	18 (4.7)	Prematurity, low birth weight, small for gestational age	12 (3.1)
Conjunctivitis	15 (3.9)	Congenital anomaly	11 (2.9)
Impetigo	7 (1.8)	Respiratory distress syndrome	11 (2.9)
Upper respiratory infection	7 (1.8)	Meconium aspiration	8 (2.1)
Fever	5 (1.3)	Seizure	6 (1.6)
Tuberculosis	5 (1.3)	Failure to thrive	4 (1.0)
Cellulitis	3 (0.8)	Thrombocytosis	2 (0.5)
Hepatitis	1 (0.3)	Other skin conditions	2 (0.5)
Urinary tract infection	1 (0.3)	Trauma/abuse	2 (0.5)
Skin abscess	1 (0.3)	Irritability or colic	3 (0.8)
		Bleeding	1 (0.3)
		Umbilical granuloma	1 (0.3)

NOTES:
for infants with multiple diagnoses, infectious diseases were listed as the primary reason for hospitalization.
†Includes abnormal liver or renal function tests.
The 18 infants hospitalized for syphilis were admitted for treatment based on maternal syphilis serological diagnoses. The 15 infants hospitalized for conjunctivitis and 7 for upper respiratory infection were admitted for symptoms assessment, respectively; no other diagnoses were reported at discharge. Among hospitalized infants 5 had dual diagnoses of sepsis and pneumonia and 5 had sepsis and gastroenteritis.

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