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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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The role of indoor air pollution and other factors in the incidence of pneumonia in under-five children [PDF]
, 2004 Background The World Health Organization has asked for a special attention to the relation between pneumonia and indoor air pollution, i.e., household biomass fuel smoke, cigarette smoke, and mosquito coil smoke, especially in developing countries ...
Surjono, Ahmad +7 more
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Estimation of the national disease burden of influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness in Kenya and Guatemala : a novel methodology [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Knowing the national disease burden of severe influenza in low-income countries can inform policy decisions around influenza treatment and prevention.
Njuguna Henry +67 more
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Pneumonia Severity Index in the Immunocompromised [PDF]
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2006 BACKGROUND: The pneumonia severity index (PSI) accounts for many comorbidities, but not immunosuppression.OBJECTIVES: To document the utility of the PSI to predict mortality in immunocompromised patients (IP) with community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP).METHODS: Charts of 284 patients with immunosuppression and CAP were reviewed, and these patients were ...
Sanders, Kevin M +2 more
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Treating childhood pneumonia in hard-to-reach areas: a model-based comparison of mobile clinics and community-based care. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Where hard-to-access populations (such as those living in insecure areas) lack access to basic health services, relief agencies, donors, and ministries of health face a dilemma in selecting the most effective intervention strategy. This paper
Francesco Checchi +8 more
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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 +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 +7 more
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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
Xiuhua Yu +3 more
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Increasing Pneumocystis pneumonia, England, UK, 2000-2010. [PDF]
, 2013 After an increase in the number of reported cases of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in England, we investigated data from 2000-2010 to verify the increase. We analyzed national databases for microbiological and clinical diagnoses of P.
Nichols, Gordon +13 more
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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 +3 more
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