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Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia [PDF]

Critical Care Clinics, 2013
Severe community-acquired pneumonia necessitating intensive care unit admission is associated with high morbidity, mortality, and health-care cost. This review article serves to summarize the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of this common life-threatening condition.
Sligl, Wendy I., Marrie, Thomas J.
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ETIOLOGICAL FEATURES AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA

Arta Medica, 2020
Objectives. Healthcare-associated pneumonia develops in patients undergoing regular medical procedures or has a longterm contact with the hospital environment. Several studies have shown important differences in healthcare-associated pneumonia, comparing
Cristina Toma, Doina Rusu, Victor Botnaru   +2 more
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Severe community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2004
Community-acquired pneumonia remains a prevalent and potentially life-threatening infection. In general, the disease is considered severe when inpatient care including ICU admission is required, and this often suggests a poorer prognosis. Severe community-acquired pneumonia continues to be an important subject of research from different perspectives ...
Francisco, Alvarez-Lerma, Antoni, Torres
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Adding steroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia treatment: does it make a difference?

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2021
Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most serious respiratory infection and the leading cause of death from infectious disease around the world.
Safaa Wafy, Hassan Bayoumi, Shaimaa A El-Naser   +2 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Ceftaroline in severe community-acquired pneumonia

Revista Española de Quimioterapia, 2022
Severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) is associated with high mortality. Factor such as early adequate antibiotic therapy, delay in intensive care unit (ICU) care and pneumonia caused by resistant pathogens are associated with worse outcomes in SCAP patients.
Cilloniz, Catia, Pericàs, Juan M, Rojas, Jorge   +2 more
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Existence and relevance of fulminant severe community-acquired pneumonia. [PDF]

Pneumonia (Nathan)
Background Severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) is a major contributor to global hospital mortality, with some patients rapidly progressing to death within a few days due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), septic shock, or multiorgan ...
Salton F, Villar J, Mondoni M, Harari S, Salotti A, Ambrós A, Alba F, Ferrando C, Muñoz T, Soler JA, Pérez-Méndez L, Férnandez C, Martinez D, Gasparotto S, Centanni S, Zuccon U, Barbati G, Rocca A, Ruaro B, Confalonieri M, Confalonieri P.   +20 more
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Features of the community–acquired pneumonia in a child with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome: case-report and mini-review [PDF]

Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2019
Introduction. The Kasabach-Merritt syndrome is a rare and severe disease that occurs in children in the presence of a large-sized hemangioma, accompanied by coagulation disorders.
Oksana BOYARCHUK, Andrii CHORNOMYDZ, Iryna CHORNOMYDZ   +2 more
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Severe community-acquired pneumonia caused by Chlamydia pecorum

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Chlamydia pecorum is a zoonotic pathogen. Here, we report the first case of human infection with C. pecorum. A man aged 51 years with high fever and dry cough was diagnosed with severe community-acquired pneumonia and respiratory failure. C.
Lizhen Cao, Lin He, Siyuan Wang, Lianjie Xu, Shifang Zhuang   +4 more
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Severity assessment in community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2000
In current guidelines for the management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), the triaging decision about hospitalization or intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and, as a consequence, selection of initial antimicrobial treatment is largely based on the assessment of pneumonia severity.
S, Ewig, H, Schäfer, A, Torres
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