Influenza Complications in Children: The Experience of a Children's Hospital in Romania and a Comparative…

Cohort studyDiseases (Basel, Switzerland)· Jun 2026

Influenza Complications in Children: The Experience of a Children's Hospital in Romania and a Comparative Literature Review of Western and Eastern Studies.

Ioana Luca, Laura Bleotu, Oana Gabriela Falup-Pecurariu

Pediatric Infection & VaccinationCohort studyQ1IF 4.0

Respiratory infections were the most frequent influenza complication in hospitalized children

Influenza Complications in Children: The Experience of a Children's Hospital in Romania and a Comparative Literature Review of Western and Eastern Studies.

Ioana Luca … Oana Gabriela Falup-Pecurariu

Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · Jun 2026 · Q1 in General Medicine

Background

Influenza infections have reached an approximate number of one billion cases annually in the general population.

Purpose

The objective of this study was to define the characteristics of influenza-associated complications in pediatric patients hospitalized at a tertiary hospital in Brasov, Romania.

Methods

This was an observational, retrospective study that gathered 258 influenza-infected patients aged from 0 up to 18 years old, hospitalized during the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2025 at the Children's Hospital of Brasov (a single-center study, but in a tertiary unit).

n = 258 influenza-infected patients

Results

respiratory illness like bronchiolitis and pneumonia was the top complication

Respiratory (bronchiol

22.8%

Hematological

13.5%

More results

The patients were stratified according to their influenza type (A or B) and length of hospital stay.

No significant association was observed between the influenza type and admission duration (χ 2 = 2.185, df = 2, p = 0.3354).

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Conclusion

The length of stay did not differ significantly between patients with influenza A and those with influenza B in the selected sample. The most common complications were respiratory, hematological, ENT, and neurological.

Influenza Complications in Children: The Experience of a Children's Hospital in Romania and a Comparative Literature Review of Western and Eastern Studies.

Influenza Complications in Children: The Experience of a Children's Hospital in Romania and a Comparative Literature Review of Western and Eastern Studies.

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