PES Pathogens in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Microorganisms, 2019 Worldwide, there is growing concern about the burden of pneumonia. Severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is frequently complicated by pulmonary and extra-pulmonary complications, including sepsis, septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome ...
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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 ...
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CD4+/CD8+ T lymphocytes imbalance in children with severe 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) pneumonia [PDF]
Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2011 PurposeThis study was conducted to investigate the immune responses of children with moderate and severe novel influenza A virus (H1N1) pneumonia, and to compare their clinical and immunological findings with those of control subjects.MethodsThirty-two ...
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 Background: Jilin Province, located in northeastern China, recently experienced a human adenovirus (HAdV) epidemic. Few studies involving hospitalized pediatric patients with pneumonia caused by HAdV in our region exist. HAdV pneumonia can lead to severe
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Epidemiology and risk factors for pneumonia severity and mortality in Bangladeshi children <5 years of age before 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction [PDF]
, 2016 Background Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality in young children in Bangladesh. We present the epidemiology of pneumonia in Bangladeshi children
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Appropriateness of clinical severity classification of new WHO childhood pneumonia guidance : a multi-hospital, retrospective, cohort study [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Management of pneumonia in many low-income and middle-income countries is based on WHO guidelines that classify children according to clinical signs that define thresholds of risk.
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Standardization of Laboratory Methods for the PERCH Study. [PDF]
, 2017 The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study was conducted across 7 diverse research sites and relied on standardized clinical and laboratory methods for the accurate and meaningful interpretation of pneumonia etiology data.
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Lower mortality rate in elderly patients with community-onset pneumonia on treatment with aspirin [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is complicated by high rate of mortality and cardiovascular events (CVEs). The potential benefit of aspirin, which lowers platelet aggregation by inhibition of thromboxane A2 production, is still unclear. The aim of the study was to
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Severe mycoplasma pneumonia. [PDF]
Thorax, 1977 A patient who developed who developed a protracted illness following severe mycoplasma pneumonia is described. The acute phase of the infection was complicated by myocarditis and haemolytic anaemia. The respiratory symptoms abated and lung function tests improved with the administration of systemic and inhaled corticosteroids.
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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
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