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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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Limited Utility of Polymerase Chain Reaction in Induced Sputum Specimens for Determining the Causes of Childhood Pneumonia in Resource-Poor Settings: Findings From the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) Study. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND.: Sputum examination can be useful in diagnosing the cause of pneumonia in adults but is less well established in children. We sought to assess the diagnostic utility of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of respiratory viruses and ...
Antonio, Martin, Awori, Juliet O, Baggett, Henry C, Baillie, Vicky L, Brooks, W Abdullah, DeLuca, Andrea N, Driscoll, Amanda J, Feikin, Daniel R, Fu, Wei, Hammitt, Laura L, Higdon, Melissa M, Hossain, Lokman, Howie, Stephen RC, Jahan, Yasmin, Karron, Ruth A, Kazungu, Sidi, Knoll, Maria Deloria, Kotloff, Karen L, Levine, Orin S, Li, Mengying, Madhi, Shabir A, Moore, David P, Morpeth, Susan C, Murdoch, David R, Mwananyanda, Lawrence, O'Brien, Katherine L, Ofordile, Ogochukwu, Park, Daniel E, PERCH Study Group, Prosperi, Christine, Sangwichian, Ornuma, Sawatwong, Pongpun, Scott, J Anthony G, Seidenberg, Phil, Shi, Qiyuan, Sylla, Mamadou, Tapia, Milagritos D, Thea, Donald M, Zeger, Scott L   +38 more
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Epidemiology of Adenovirus Pneumonia and Risk Factors for Bronchiolitis Obliterans in Children During an Outbreak in Jilin, China

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
Xiuhua Yu, Yucong Ma, Yang Gao, Hailong You   +3 more
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Severe Pneumococcal Pneumonia Causes Acute Cardiac Toxicity and Subsequent Cardiac Remodeling [PDF]

, 2017
Rationale: Up to one-third of patients hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia experience major adverse cardiac events (MACE) during or after pneumonia.
Aliberti, Stefano, Anzueto, Antonio, Babu, Bettina L., Chalmers, James D., Coalson, Jacqueline J., Dela Cruz, Charles S., Dube, Peter H., Giavedoni, Luis D., Gonzalez-Juarbe, Norberto, Hinojosa, Cecilia A., Jimenez, Alejandro, Orihuela, Carlos J., Restrepo, Marcos I., Reyes, Luis F., Rodriguez, Alejandro H., Sibila, Oriol, Soni, Nilam J., Suttorp, Norbert, Waterer, Grant W., Winter, Vicki T., Witzenrath, Martin   +20 more
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Perbandingan Pola Kuman dan Kadar Biomarker Inflamasi Penderita Severe Pneumonia dengan Penderita Non-severe Pneumonia [Bacterial Pattern and Inflammatory Biomarker in Severe Pneumonia Compared to Non-Severe Pneumonia Patient]

Jurnal Respirasi, 2019
Background: Severe pneumonia is still a serious problem with high mortality rate. The cause of severe pneumonia due to high inflammation or different microbial pattern compared to non-severe pneumonia is still unknown.
Daniel Maranatha, Mawardi Mawardi
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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.
Adrian, Peter V, Ahmed, Dilruba, Alam, Muntasir, Anderson, Trevor P, Antonio, Martin, Baggett, Henry C, Baillie, Vicky L, Bhat, Niranjan, Brooks, W Abdullah, Dione, Michel, Driscoll, Amanda J, Endtz, Hubert P, Feikin, Daniel R, Gitahi, Caroline, Hammitt, Laura L, Howie, Stephen RC, Karani, Angela, Karron, Ruth A, Knoll, Maria Deloria, Kotloff, Karen L, Kwenda, Geoffrey, Levine, Orin S, Madhi, Shabir A, Maiga, Abdoul Aziz, McClellan, Jessica, Mitchell, Joanne L, Morailane, Palesa, Morpeth, Susan C, Mugo, Daisy, Murdoch, David R, Mwaba, John, Mwansa, James, Mwarumba, Salim, Nyongesa, Sammy, O'Brien, Katherine L, Panchalingam, Sandra, Rahman, Mustafizur, Sawatwong, Pongpun, Scott, J Anthony G, Tamboura, Boubou, Thea, Donald M, Toure, Aliou, Whistler, Toni   +42 more
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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 ...
Catia Cillóniz, Cristina Dominedò, Antonello Nicolini, Antoni Torres   +3 more
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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 ...
Ji Eun Kim, Siegfried Bauer, Kyong Suk La, Kee Hyoung Lee, Ji Tae Choung, Kyoung Ho Roh, Chang Kyu Lee, Young Yoo   +7 more
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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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Cost-effectiveness of pulse oximetry and integrated management of childhood illness for diagnosing severe pneumonia

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Pneumonia is a major killer of children younger than five years old. In resource constrained health facilities, the capacity to diagnose severe pneumonia is low.
Solomon H. Tesfaye, Eskindir Loha, Kjell Arne Johansson, Bernt Lindtjørn   +3 more
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