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Viruses associated with pneumonia in adults. [PDF]

, 2012
Viral pneumonia, which is typically associated with disease in childhood, is increasingly recognized as causing problems in adults. Certain viruses, such as influenza virus, can attack fully immunocompetent adults, but many viruses take advantage of more-
Cesario, Thomas C
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Rationale and methods of a randomized controlled trial of immunogenicity, safety and impact on carriage of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines in infants in Papua New Guinea

Pneumonia, 2017
Background Children in third-world settings including Papua New Guinea (PNG) experience early onset of carriage with a broad range of pneumococcal serotypes, resulting in a high incidence of severe pneumococcal disease and deaths in the first 2 years of ...
Deborah Lehmann, Wendy Kirarock, Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar, Megan Passey, Peter Jacoby, Gerard Saleu, Geraldine Masiria, Birunu Nivio, Andrew Greenhill, Tilda Orami, Jacinta Francis, Rebecca Ford, Lea-Ann Kirkham, Vela Solomon, Peter C. Richmond, William S. Pomat, for the 10v13v PCV trial team   +16 more
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Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19 Pneumonia

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pneumonia is often associated with hyperinflammation. Despite the disproportionate incidence of Covid-19 among underserved and racial and ethnic minority populations, the safety and efficacy of the anti ...
Carlos Salama, Jian Han, L. Yau, W. Reiss, B. Kramer, J. Neidhart, G. Criner, Emma Kaplan-Lewis, R. Baden, L. Pandit, M. Cameron, J. Garcia-Diaz, V. Chavez, M. Mekebeb-Reuter, Ferdinando Lima de Menezes, R. Shah, M. González-Lara, B. Assman, J. Freedman, Shalini V. Mohan   +19 more
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Expanded CURB-65: A new score system predicts severity of community-acquired pneumonia with superior efficiency [PDF]

, 2016
Aim of this study was to develop a new simpler and more effective severity score for communityacquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. A total of 1640 consecutive hospitalized CAP patients in Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University were included ...
Dong, Xiao Jun, Falcone, Marco, Farcomeni, Alessio, Liu, Jin Liang, Lu, Rui Qing, Luo, Shu Ya, Shi, Ling Xian, Venditti, Mario, Wu, Xue Jie, Xu, Feng, Zhao, Ying Li, Zhou, Hui   +11 more
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A rare case of lipoid pneumonia attributed to amiodarone

Pneumonia, 2018
We report a case of endogenous lipoid pneumonia secondary to long-term use of amiodarone (> 30 years) for atrial fibrillation in a 76-year-old Caucasian woman, presenting with cough and dyspnea.
Ilektra Voulgareli, Alexandra Chronaiou, Dionisios Tsoukalas, George Tsoukalas   +3 more
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Diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department. [PDF]

, 2008
Pneumonia is a condition that is often treated by emergency physicians. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department and highlights dilemmas in diagnostic testing, use of blood and sputum cultures, hospital ...
Abrahamian, Fredrick M, Moran, Gregory J, Talan, David A   +2 more
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low‐Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present two pediatric cases of pediatric low‐grade gliomas (PLGG) with BRAF V600E mutations diagnosed and monitored using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) liquid biopsy analyzed via digital droplet PCR (ddPCR), without tissue biopsy. Both patients were treated with dabrafenib and trametinib and monitored through clinical assessments, magnetic ...
Hannah Sultan, Damien Faury, Alexander G. Weil, Harrison J. Westwick, Nada Jabado, Sébastien Perreault   +5 more
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The association between pre-hospital antibiotic therapy and subsequent in-hospital mortality in adults presenting with community-acquired pneumonia: an observational study

Pneumonia, 2018
Background The majority of patients with community acquired-pneumonia (CAP) are treated in primary care and the mortality in this group is very low. However, a small but significant proportion of patients who begin treatment in the community subsequently
Biswajit Chakrabarti, Dan Wootton, Steven Lane, Elizabeth Kanwar, Joseph Somers, Jacyln Proctor, Nancy Prospero, Mark Woodhead   +7 more
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Cost effectiveness analysis of implementing tuberculosis screening among applicants for non-immigrant U.S. work visas

Pneumonia, 2020
Background While persons who receive immigrant and refugee visas are screened for active tuberculosis before admission into the United States, nonimmigrant visa applicants (NIVs) are not routinely screened and may enter the United States with infectious ...
Bisma Ali Sayed, Drew L. Posey, Brian Maskery, La’Marcus T. Wingate, Martin S. Cetron   +4 more
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Additional effect of azithromycin over β-lactam alone for severe community-acquired pneumonia-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study

Pneumonia, 2022
Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although previous studies have suggested that macrolide therapy is beneficial for ARDS, its benefit for severe CAP-associated ARDS ...
Jun Suzuki, Yusuke Sasabuchi, Shuji Hatakeyama, Hiroki Matsui, Teppei Sasahara, Yuji Morisawa, Toshiyuki Yamada, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga   +8 more
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