The World Health organization received reports of 478 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A (H5N1) from 15 countries between November 2003 and February 2010. More than 50% of these cases involved patients Methods
Five case reports (36 patients Results
The linear regression analysis revealed that mortality was negatively associated with WBC and PLT counts adjusted with age and sex. Increased log AST tended to be associated with a poor prognosis ( p = 0.054), but there was no significant association between survival and log ALT level.
ConclusionsBoth decreased WBC and PLT counts can be considered to be common predictors of poor prognosis in H5N1 influenza patients