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Severe community-acquired pneumonia: an integral approach [PDF]

Journal of Intensive Care
Background Severe community-acquired pneumonia represents the most critical manifestation of pneumonia acquired outside the hospital and remains a major cause of intensive care admission and death worldwide.
Arsah Asis, Darren McMahon, Shigeki Fujitani, Pedro Povoa, Alejandro Rodriguez, Luis Felipe Reyes, Ignacio Martin-Loeches   +6 more
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Severe community-acquired pneumonia

European Respiratory Review, 2022
Severe community-acquired pneumonia is the most life-threatening form of community-acquired pneumonia, characterised by intensive care unit admission and high morbidity and mortality.
Michael S. Niederman, Antoni Torres
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Advances in severe community-acquired pneumonia

Chinese Medical Journal, 2019
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common respiratory disease and is considered to be the leading cause of mortality among various infectious diseases.[1,2] A large population-based study showed that among hospitalized patients diagnosed with pneumonia, 21% of them required the intensive care unit (ICU) admission, 6% required invasive mechanical ...
Jian Wang, Yuan-Lin Song, Yi Cui
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Eosinopenia and prognosis in severe community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

Pneumonia
Background Eosinopenia has been reported as a marker of severity in infections, but its prognostic value in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) is unclear.
Catia Cilloniz, Tatiana Castañeda, Antonio Campanella, Riccardo Guglielmi, Albert Gabarrús, Sara Granero, Cristina Calvo-García, Maria Angeles Marcos, Antoni Torres   +8 more
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Existence and relevance of fulminant severe community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

Pneumonia
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 ...
Francesco Salton, Jesús Villar, Michele Mondoni, Sergio Harari, Andrea Salotti, Alfonso Ambrós, Francisco Alba, Carlos Ferrando, Tomàs Muñoz, Juan A. Soler, Lina Pérez-Méndez, Cristina Férnandez, Domingo Martinez, Stefano Gasparotto, Stefano Centanni, Umberto Zuccon, Giulia Barbati, Andrea Rocca, Barbara Ruaro, Marco Confalonieri, Paola Confalonieri   +20 more
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Safety of steroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

European Respiratory Review
The systemic use of corticosteroids for patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) remains controversial in clinical practice, particularly in terms of the safety profile of these drugs.
Federica Viola Piedepalumbo, Ana Motos, Francesco Blasi, Antoni Torres   +3 more
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Steroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia. [PDF]

Breathe (Sheff)
There is conflicting evidence regarding the use of steroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), with previous randomised controlled trials limited by small sample sizes. ESCAPe and CAPE COD are two recently published large trials on steroids in severe CAP.
Ananth S, Mathioudakis AG, Hansel J.
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Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia [PDF]

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 1997
Severe community-acquired pneumonia is now considered a separate clinical entity that is important to recognize, particularly because of its high mortality rate. This article reviews several of the studies published in the past year that focus on risk and prognostic factors, etiology, diagnostic evaluation, pathogenesis, and therapy of this important ...
J, Insausti, P, Olaechea, J, Barado
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Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia [PDF]

BJA Education, 2016
Abstract Although there is no general consensus on the definition of severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP), the most accepted criteria are based on the 2007 Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of CAP in adults. Since pulmonary and extra-pulmonary complications increase mortality
Adamantia Liapikou, Catia Cilloniz, Adrian Ceccato, Antoni Torres   +3 more
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Тhe features of severe community acquired pneumonia [PDF]

Medičnì Perspektivi, 2015
Based on data from a prospective analysis for the year of observation, the article presents information about the features of severe community acquired pneumonia in patients who were hospitalized at the department of pulmonology (or therapy), as well as ...
Avramenko I.V.
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