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SEVERE COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA
Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1999Although several pneumonia severity criteria have been firmly established, the exact definition of severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains elusive. Mortality from CAP remains high, reaching 50% in some series. The particular role of and spp. in severe CAP has been defined more clearly.
S, Ewig, A, Torres
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Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
La Revue du praticien, 2001Community-acquired pneumonia is severe when hospitalisation is required. The diagnosis is based on pulmonary involvement (chest radiography) associated with vital signs abnormalities (mental status, temperature, blood pressure and ventilatory rate) or immunosuppression (neoplastic diseases). No specific causative pathogen could be incriminated.
Richard G. Wunderink, Grant W. Waterer
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DEFINING SEVERE COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA
Medical Clinics of North America, 2001Based on the recognition of the main pathophysiologic features of pneumonia and currently available data on prognosis and clinical severity assessment, key points for a definition of severe pneumonia are as follows: 1. Independent predictors of pneumonia severity are factors reflecting acute respiratory failure and severe sepsis or septic shock. 2.
T, Neuhaus, S, Ewig
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Procalcitonin and severity of community-acquired pneumonia
Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, 2009The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between procalcitonin and the severity and prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia. The subjects were 162 patients with community-acquired pneumonia (disease severity, mild, 39 patients; moderate, 81 patients; severe, 37 patients; and super severe, 5 patients) in whom we examined the serum ...
Niro, Okimoto +8 more
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Severity scores for community-acquired pneumonia
Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2008An assessment of the severity of illness of a patient is one of the most important components of their early management. It guides decisions regarding the most appropriate site of care and the selection of empiric antibiotic therapy. In recent years, prediction tools, known as severity scores, have been promoted to assist early assessments of the ...
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Corticosteroids for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
JAMA, 2015Corticosteroids are thephysician’s immunomodulatory agent of choice.Theseagentsare inexpensiveandubiquitouslyavailable, have awell-known adverse effect profile, do not require monitoring of drug levels, and, probably most important, mimic the body’s own response to stress. Accordingly, corticosteroidshavebeenusedforawidevarietyofmedical illnesses.
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Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia
2012Severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important disease and on many intensive care units (ICUs) it is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases. Despite advances in antimicrobial therapy, rates of mortality from CAP remain unacceptably high.
J. Vergragt, J. Kesecioglu, D. W. Lange
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Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
2007Pneumonia is a leading cause of death in the world and the sixth most common cause of death in the United States. Indeed, in the US it is the number one cause of death from infectious diseases; each year in the US, there are from 5 to 10 million cases of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) leading to as many as 1.1 million hospitalizations and 45,000 ...
M. Bodí, J. Rello
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