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Naples, January 7 - Doctors said on Monday that a 59-year-old woman in a coma was admitted to the San Leonardo hospital in Castellamare di Stabia near Naples for severe respiratory problems caused by swine flu. Physicians confirmed that the woman who is suffering from influenza caused by the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, had pre-existing health problems. On Thursday doctors in the Sardinian hospital of Lanusei said that a 46-year-old man had been admitted with bilateral pneumonia, high fever and respiratory problems, all associated with swine flu. He was subsequently transferred to Milan's San Raffaele hospital where the H1N1 virus was confirmed. The hospital says his condition has since improved. Italian health authorities said that H1N1 has a fatality rate of 0.03%, compared to 0.1% for the regular seasonal flu. As of Monday, state health officials said that there is no reason to fear an epidemic in Italy.
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Re: Woman near Naples hospitalized for swine flu
the woman suffering from influenza H1N1 died
It is the deceased woman 59-year-old hospitalized in a coma the last 4 January, following the viruses of influenza H1N1. He was in intensive care in the Intensive Care ward of the hospital San Leonardo in Castellammare di Stabia, transported by Torre Annunziata, where dwelt in a popular district. For her, the so-called 'swine' of 2010 has left no chance.
Circulatory arrest and the diagnosis of the patient who had a severe respiratory crisis. It was a woman cardiopatica and in the past had suffered a kidney transplant. For you have been activated therapies resuscitation, by artificial respiration, to enable it to resume clinic that at the moment appears desperate.
"THE H1N1 is a form of influenza that at the moment, it is not an epidemic - reassures the health director of the hospital San Leonardo, Ugo Esposito - the madam hospitalized in our structure had health problems of varying nature: he had undergone a transplant in the past and was cardiopatica,
Consequently had an immune response that has made weak compared to the virus".
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