Italy records first H1N1 death

[Treyfish]

Posted: 04 September 2009 0827 hrs
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ROME: A 51-year-old Naples man with chronic health problems died overnight after contracting the H1N1 flu, becoming Italy's first person to have died from the virus, the Naples hospital said on Friday.

The director of Cotugno's hospital said in a statement that the man, identified only by his initials D.G., died at midnight "due to a staph infection, bronchial pneumonia complicated by acute renal insufficiency associated with a serious cardiac myopathy and pancreatic diabetes... complicated by infection with the H1N1 virus."

He was Italy's first death due the virus, it added.

The doctors who treated the man, who had been hospitalised for several days, told Italy's ANSA news agency that he was already in a serious condition due to his existing illnesses.

The man, who lived with his mother in a working-class suburb of Naples, had not travelled abroad, doctors said.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Italy records first H1N1 death

Influenza A, first Italian victim in Naples
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At twelve o'clock he stopped the hearts of DG, the man of 51 years, struck by the flu virus H1N1, which for several days, was hospitalized in critical condition in the hospital for treatment of infectious diseases "Cotugno", Naples . Italy is the first victim of influenza that is causing the deaths of hundreds of people all over the world, though, in this first Italian case, the virus is only partly responsible for the death that was determined above all by serious diseases that have afflicted the patient for some time.

The man, a feeble-minded person, it has long suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy and a very severe form of diabetes. The clinical picture, recently, it was further complicated due to renal failure and sepsis from Staphylococcus aureus.

The conditions of DG have suffered a further sharp deterioration of the last 23 hours into the evening. The medical and paramedical personnel in service in the intensive care unit of Cotugno immediately intervened, virtually all the actions within the treatment protocols. Before long, however, doctors have noted an increasing bradycardia, ie, a gradual slowing of heartbeat, until he succeeded fibrillation and finally stopping. Doctors at the Cotugno continued with resuscitation for another 45 minutes, until it has had to observe the patient's death.

The conditions of man - who lived with her elderly mother in the Secondigliano neighborhood - had proved to be very critical from the time he was admitted in the hospital for treatment of infectious diseases in Naples. The doctors, in fact, had never had too much hope that he could survive. From the moment of his arrival at the hospital last Tuesday, DG had been subjected to assisted ventilation and monitoring in terms of hemodynamic and respiratory, with EKG, blood pressure control and gas levels in the blood. DG was from the outset also subjected to haemofiltration kidney.

The man was initially admitted Cardarelli Hospital, where he had been diagnosed severe cardiorespiratory and renal insufficiency and for this had been intubated. Later he was transferred to hospital CTO and after the exams, he was diagnosed with N1H1 influenza virus A. At that point had been brought to Cotugno.

DG has never been abroad, and because of the many diseases which are affected, had been hospitalized in the past in various hospitals and nursing homes in Naples. Doctors at the Cotugno, however, have ruled that it may have contracted the virus N1H1 precisely during one of these shelters.

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[Giuseppe]

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