• Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the most common infectious diseases and an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. (medscape.com)
  • Children under the age of five are more likely to develop pneumonia, which continues to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in this age group [ 4 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Pneumonia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in nursing home residents, with 30-day mortality rates ranging from 10 to 30 percent. (aafp.org)
  • Pneumonia is the second most common cause of infection in nursing home residents, and is associated with notable morbidity and mortality. (aafp.org)
  • To determine whether HIV exposure without infection is an independent risk factor for mortality and morbidity in children admitted to PICU with pneumonia. (who.int)
  • 9,14,15] However, the effect of HIV exposure of age annual y.[1-4] However, the mortality rate from pneumonia on pneumonia morbidity and mortality risk is less well known. (who.int)
  • in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is substantial y They are nevertheless considered a vulnerable population and greater than in high-income countries,[5] with sub-Saharan Africa appear to have an increased morbidity and mortality rate from accounting for almost 50% of global pneumonia deaths. (who.int)
  • 6,8] factor for mortality and morbidity in children with pneumonia. (who.int)
  • Lastly, MRSA pneumonia is associated with greater morbidity and mortality than pneumonia caused by other etiologies, possibly due to the virulent and resistant nature of the MRSA pathogen [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Human adenovirus (Adv) infection is responsible for most community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children, which results in significant morbidity and mortality in children every year. (hindawi.com)
  • Despite the importance of paediatric pneumonia as a cause of short and long-term morbidity and mortality worldwide, a reliable gold standard for its diagnosis remains elusive. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In developing countries like Ethiopia, pneumonia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality of under-five children. (alliedacademies.org)
  • While diagnosis of pneumonia is based on clinical presentation and infiltrate seen on chest x-ray, which of the following is/are recommended if the chest x-ray does not reveal an infiltrate? (mdedge.com)
  • Following a diagnosis of pneumonia, the clinician needs to decide the appropriate location for care (outpatient care, hospital, or the intensive care unit [ICU]) and the appropriate antibiotic treatment. (bmj.com)
  • Large population-based studies are needed in different populations to address many of the knowledge gaps in the radiological diagnosis of pneumonia in children, however, the feasibility of such studies is an important barrier. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the appropriate setting (e.g. trained health care professionals and diagnostic services), other factors may be considered to improve the specificity of the diagnosis of pneumonia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Pneumonia is a common respiratory infection, affecting approximately 450 million people a year and occurring in all parts of the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pneumonia is a type of lower respiratory tract infection, and is also the most deadly communicable disease as of 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • Respiratory viruses and atypical bacteria are also responsible for causing many cases of community acquired pneumonia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most frequent cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants and children and the second most common viral cause of pneumonia in adults. (medscape.com)
  • Parainfluenza virus (PIV) is second in importance only to RSV as a cause of lower respiratory tract disease in children and pneumonia and bronchiolitis in infants younger than 6 months. (medscape.com)
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae (37%), respiratory syncytial virus (29%) and rhinovirus (24%) were the most common agents associated with community-acquired pneumonia. (nih.gov)
  • With effective immunization for S. pneumoniae and respiratory syncytial virus infections, more than one-half of the pneumonia cases in this study could have been prevented. (nih.gov)
  • The various areas that Reinhard Marre examines in his Intensive care medicine study include Respiratory disease, Epidemiology, Ambulatory, Legionnaires' disease and Prospective cohort study. (research.com)
  • His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Respiratory disease, Prospective cohort study, Procalcitonin and Epidemiology. (research.com)
  • His study in Community-acquired pneumonia is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Multivariate analysis, Pharmacotherapy, Respiratory system, Prospective cohort study and Etiology. (research.com)
  • His scientific interests lie mostly in Internal medicine, Community-acquired pneumonia, Epidemiology, Intensive care medicine and Respiratory disease. (research.com)
  • In some cases these symptoms are followed by hypoxia, pneumonia, and occasionally acute respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation and death. (cdc.gov)
  • Aspects of treatment of lower respiratory tract infections in terms of clinical guidelines of different countries (bronchiolitis, bronchitis, community-acquired pneumonia) by: S.O. Kramarov, et al. (uitm.edu.my)
  • Respiratory viruses can be causes of pneumonia by themselves, or they can be a leading factor for progressing to bacterial pneumonia or coinfection with bacteria [ 5 ]. (accjournal.org)
  • SMART-COP: a tool for predicting the need for intensive respiratory or vasopressor support in community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • While often used as a synonym for pneumonia , the rubric of lower respiratory tract infection can also be applied to other types of infection including lung abscess , acute bronchitis , and emphysema . (bionity.com)
  • There are a number of acute and chronic infections that can affect the lower respiratory tract, the focus of this paper is to look at the two most common infections, Bronchitis and Pneumonia, as identified by the Therapeutic guidelines. (bionity.com)
  • A correlation between, the early variations in the individual arterial blood gas (ABG) parameters - pH, PaO 2 , PaCO 2 and HCO 3 -, and the treatment outcome, in pneumonia patients in respiratory failure, has not been well investigated. (ijmedicine.com)
  • If a statistically significant variation among the individual ABG parameters would be an early, reliable predictor of the treatment outcome, it would facilitate prompt active management of the patient in respiratory failure from pneumonia before a clinically apparent downward turn culminates. (ijmedicine.com)
  • Variations among individual ABG parameters can predict treatment outcome in pneumonia patients of type I respiratory failure, and fail to do so in those with type II respiratory failure. (ijmedicine.com)
  • Acute Respiratory Failure in Patients with Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia. (ijmedicine.com)
  • Adv causes infections for 5-10% of upper and lower respiratory tract infections in children, which results in pneumonia and nearly 1.3 million deaths of children every year [ 3 , 4 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • 8 WHO also provides global guidance on surveillance for influenza, including influenza-like illness (ILI) among outpatients and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) among inpatients, to capture influenza epidemiology, including disease burden. (who.int)
  • All of the serotypes, particularly type b, are common etiological agents in lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia. (statpearls.com)
  • Respiratory community-acquired and healthcare-related sepsis: are they different? (biomedcentral.com)
  • Pneumonia is one form of Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI) that affects the lungs. (alliedacademies.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) defines pneumonia as a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs [ 2 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • The term "typical" CAP refers to a bacterial pneumonia caused by pathogens such as S pneumoniae , H influenzae , and M catarrhalis . (medscape.com)
  • Clinicians should be aware of the epidemiology of these pathogens in CAP. (cdc.gov)
  • While the majority of these pathogens are bacteria, it is possible for multiple pathogens to infect at once and cause pneumonia. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, mixed pathogens, combine with bacterial and viral infection, may reach up to 50 percent in childhood pneumonia. (frontiersin.org)
  • Community acquired pneumonia is one of the leading causes of hospitalization due to an infectious agent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hospitalization generally is warranted for infants younger than three to six months of age, unless a viral etiology or Chlamydia trachomatis is suspected and they are not hypoxemic and relatively asymptomatic. (medilib.ir)
  • However, in severe cases of nursing home-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization and mechanical ventilation, the rates of infection with Staphylococcus aureus and enteric gram-negative organisms appear to exceed those of S. pneumoniae . (aafp.org)
  • This study compared the rates of very severe pneumonia and all-cause meningitis hospitalization and death, before and after introduction of conjugate Hib vaccine, and reports the results of the 2010 bacterial meningitis surveillance. (who.int)
  • However, hospitalization and death for very severe pneumonia improved only modestly, and there was evidence of a decreasing but non-significant trend indicting that very severe pneumonia was a non-specific endpoint with multi-etiologies (both viral and bacterial). (who.int)
  • It causes a relatively benign form of pneumonia that infrequently requires hospitalization. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Pneumonia is the second most common hospital-acquired disease, while also being the leading cause of death among hospital-acquired infections. (wikipedia.org)
  • A review on epidemiology and impact of human metapneumovirus infections in children using TIAB search strategy on PubMed and PubMed Central articles. (virosin.org)
  • PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this review is to discuss the latest evidence of the epidemiology, microbiology, risk factors, diagnosis and management of community-acquired skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in people who inject drug (PWID). (bvsalud.org)
  • Particular attention is paid to the possibilities of and approaches to the primary prevention of vaccine-preventable infections as the causes of the development of community-acquired pneumonia and invasive diseases in patients with diabetes mellitus with a review of international studies, guidelines, and local experience data in pneumococcal infection immunization. (bvsalud.org)
  • C. pneumoniae accounts for 2 to 5% of community-acquired pneumonia and is the 2nd most common cause of lung infections in healthy people aged 5 to 35 years. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In addition, higher cytokine concentrations were found in patients with typical bacterial infections compared with patients with atypical or viral infections and those with infection of unknown etiology. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is also seen to be the most common infection in intensive care units (ICUs), making up around 70-80% of the cases of hospital-acquired pneumonia in ICUs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Influenza pneumonia: Amantadine hydrochloride and rimantadine hydrochloride are approved for the prevention and treatment of influenza A virus infection. (medscape.com)
  • INTRODUCTION - Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is defined as an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma in a patient who has acquired the infection in the community, as distinguished from hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia. (medilib.ir)
  • Nursing home-acquired pneumonia can also be caused by viral infection ( Table 1 5 - 12 ). (aafp.org)
  • In a 3-year prospective study a nasopharyngeal aspirate for viral studies and acute and convalescent serum samples for viral and bacterial serology were taken from 254 children with symptoms of acute infection and infiltrates compatible with pneumonia in the chest radiograph. (nih.gov)
  • IMPORTANCE: Two-step testing for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) aims to improve diagnostic specificity, but may also influence reported epidemiology and patterns of treatment. (cdc.gov)
  • The etiology of viral infection in CAP is different according to regional characteristics. (accjournal.org)
  • Pneumonia is a serious infection of the small bronchioles and alveoli that can involve the pleura. (bionity.com)
  • 10] It is classified as either community or hospital acquired depending on where the patient contracted the infection. (bionity.com)
  • Knowing the miRNA expression profile will help understand the role of miRNAs in modulating the host response to adenovirus infection and possibly improve the diagnosis of adenovirus-infected pneumonia. (hindawi.com)
  • Human adenovirus (Adv) infection is responsible for most community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children [ 1 , 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • In our study, we sought to present the different miRNA profiles between Adv-infected pneumonia children and healthy controls, identify candidate diagnostic biomarkers for pneumonia with Adv infection in children, and examine the role of miRNAs in host defense response in Adv-infected children. (hindawi.com)
  • Overview of Pneumonia Pneumonia is acute inflammation of the lungs caused by infection. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is an infection that begins outside the hospital or is diagnosed within 48 hours after admission to the hospital [ 3 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • LBP showed the highest discriminatory power with respect to the etiology of infection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), they have been recognized as a major public health problem for many years. (who.int)
  • according to the involved lung anatomy, it can be categorized as lobar pneumonia, bronchial pneumonia or acute interstitial and according to the clinical severity, it can be categorized. (alliedacademies.org)
  • according to the lung anatomy involved, it can be classified as lobar pneumonia, bronchial pneumonia or acute interstitial and according to the clinical severity, it can be classified as "no pneumonia," "pneumonia" or "very severe pneumonia" [ 1 - 3 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Bilateral interstitial infiltrates in a 31-year-old patient with influenza pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, a type of typical agent, cause about 50% of this form of pneumonia. (wikipedia.org)
  • CDC has been working with the World Health Organization (WHO) since late February to investigate and confirm outbreaks of this severe form of pneumonia in Viet Nam, Hong Kong, and parts of China. (cdc.gov)
  • In practice, viral detection using multiplex PCR is becoming increasingly used, it is most useful to understand the epidemiology and impact of viruses on the pediatric population b. (uitm.edu.my)
  • To better understand the epidemiology of influenza and influenza-associated disease burden, China CDC has implemented national and provincial-level surveillance systems. (who.int)
  • See "Pneumonia in children: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and etiology" . (medilib.ir)
  • These highly upregulated microRNAs may have crucial roles in Adv pathogenesis and are potential biomarkers for adenovirus-infected pneumonia. (hindawi.com)
  • The main aim of this Research Topic is to consider the available data concerning the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of pneumonia in children, highlighting new development about novel pathogen, updated treatment, vaccination, and assistance of artificial intelligence. (frontiersin.org)
  • We have created a detailed outline of the pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis criteria, and clinical management and rehabilitation care guidelines. (ceufast.com)
  • to understand the definition, the epidemiology, the pathophysiology, the clinical presentation and the therapeutical approach, with special reference to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. (uninsubria.eu)
  • Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for severe community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • Outcomes of severe human metapneumovirus-associated community-acquired pneumonia in adults. (virosin.org)
  • Objective To investigate the accuracy of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) to predict mortality and adverse clinical outcomes for patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) compared to standard risk scores such as the pneumonia severity index (PSI) and CURB-65. (bmj.com)
  • We measured serum C-reactive protein, procalcitonin (PCT) and calprotectin levels, and plasma pentraxin 3 (PTX3) and presepsin levels, along with whole-blood white cell counts, at three time-points, and examined their association with microbial aetiology and adverse clinical outcomes in CAP. (ersjournals.com)
  • However, little is known about PICU outcomes in HIV-exposed uninfected (HIV-EU) children with pneumonia, despite the growing size of this vulnerable population. (who.int)
  • There are various causes of pneumonia including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. (wikipedia.org)
  • The influenza viruses are the most common viral cause of pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Viruses account for the largest proportion of childhood pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Studies on community-acquired pneumonias consistently demonstrate viruses to be the second most common etiologic cause (behind Streptococcus pneumoniae ), ranging from 13-50% of diagnosed cases. (medscape.com)
  • The medical records of CAP patients with definite etiology, such as viruses and bacteria, were retrospectively reviewed. (accjournal.org)
  • The most frequently detected viruses were influenza A virus (44%), followed by rhinovirus (19%), influenza B (13%), and adenovirus (6%) in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. (accjournal.org)
  • Aetiology was investigated for 9 viruses and 4 atypical and 3 typical bacteria. (fiocruz.br)
  • The high rate of hospital admission, prolonged stay in hospital, and long period of inactivity all continue to constitute a social and health care burden of community-acquired pneumonia. (ersjournals.com)
  • Burden of community-acquired pneumonia in North American adults. (omeka.net)
  • Childhood community-acquired pneumonia is a common illness, but there have been relatively few comprehensive studies of the viral and bacterial etiology in developed countries. (nih.gov)
  • OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between consolidation on chest radiograph and typical bacterial etiology of childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community study. (bvsalud.org)
  • Each year in the United States, pneumococcal disease accounts for an estimated 3,000 cases of meningitis, 50,000 cases of bacteremia, 500,000 cases of pneumonia, and 7 million cases of otitis media (1-4). (cdc.gov)
  • Currently, non-encapsulated H. influenzae , also called non-typeable H. influenzae (NTHi), is responsible for the majority of cases of otitis media, sinusitis, and pneumonia in patients that have already been immunized with the vaccine. (statpearls.com)
  • Indications - The decision to hospitalize a child with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is individualized based upon age, underlying medical problems, and clinical factors including severity of illness ( table 1 ) [ 1-3 ]. (medilib.ir)
  • The use of severity assessment tools such as the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), CURB-65, severe CAP (SCAP), and SMART-COP can facilitate decision-making and guide the antibiotic choice. (bmj.com)
  • Defining community acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study. (bmj.com)
  • Etiology of community acquired pneumonia: impact of age, comorbidity and severity. (ijmedicine.com)
  • However, the clinical manifestations of childhood pneumonia depend on the pathogen, the host factor, and the severity of illness. (frontiersin.org)
  • The aim of our study was to investigate the predictive value of the biomarkers interleukin 6 (IL-6), interleukin 10 (IL-10) and lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) compared with clinical CRB and CRB-65 severity scores in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In order to classify pneumonia severity and to guide treatment decisions, several prognostic scores for CAP have been developed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Such an effort is now possible because of a) expanding educational efforts stimulated by the epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and other sexually transmitted diseases, and b) the availability of chlamydia tests that are easy to use, economical, and accurate, thereby allowing health-care providers to diagnose and treat infected persons and their sex partners. (cdc.gov)
  • The following patients were excluded from the study: those who had been previously admitted within the last month, immunosuppressed patients, those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or patients receiving chemotherapy or corticosteroids (equivalent doses of prednisone ≥20 mg·day −1 ). (ersjournals.com)
  • The possible causative agent of childhood community-acquired pneumonia can be detected in most cases. (nih.gov)
  • Acinetobacter baumannii, a major causative agent of ventilator-associated pneumonia and catheter-related bloodstream infec. (cn1699.cn)
  • A sub-type of hospital-acquired pneumonia, known as ventilator-associated pneumonia, is described as pneumonia acquired more than 48 hours after an endotracheal intubation procedure was performed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Meta-analysis on prevalence of pediatric community acquired pneumonia in India. (alliedacademies.org)
  • South-east Asia and Africa were the two continents with the highest frequency of pediatric pneumonia, with an estimated 61 million and 35 million cases of pneumonia in children under the age of five per year, respectively [ 5 ]. (alliedacademies.org)
  • This study aims to develop and validate a nomogram and compare it with Pediatric Risk of Mortality III (PRISM III), Brighton Pediatric Early Warning Score (Brighton PEWS) and Pediatric Critical Illness Score (PCIS), which are widely used in predicting in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia. (highwire.org)
  • Viral pneumonia decreases in frequency in healthy young and middle-aged adults, but it then increases substantially among the elderly. (medscape.com)
  • Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • Almirall J, Bolibar I, Balanzo X, Gonzalez CA. Risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in adults: a population-based case-control study. (ijmedicine.com)
  • This pathogen can rarely cause severe, cavitating pneumonia and tends to affect young adults. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Out of all deaths of children age five and under in 2017, pneumonia was the cause of 15%, killing more children than any other infectious disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is a common infectious disease throughout the world. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Pneumonia is an infectious disease that affects lung parenchyma, resulting in the hosts' inflammatory reaction to microorganisms, and it ranks the first among the causes of death in patients with infectious diseases over 65, with 12%-40% mortality rates based on whether they admit the intensive care unit (ICU) [ 1 ]. (accjournal.org)
  • The President's Health Security Act of 1993 ad- health professional associations, infectious disease dresses the need for universal health care coverage experts from academia and clinical practice, and in- as well as the need to enhance community-based ternational and public service organizations, the public health strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Further studies are warranted to determine what etiologic investigations would aid in the management of pneumonia. (nih.gov)
  • The primary pathogen that can cause hospital-acquired pneumonia is dependent on the geographical location but overall, it was found that the six most common bacteria that caused most hospital-acquired pneumonia cases were S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, Klebsiella species, E. coli, Acinetobacter species, and Enterobacter species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Background Biomarkers may facilitate clinical decisions in order to guide antimicrobial treatment and prediction of prognosis in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). (ersjournals.com)
  • A prediction rule to identify low-risk patients with community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • A new MRSA prediction score classifies CO-pneumonia patients into low, medium, and high-risk groups based on objective criteria available at baseline. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Prediction of mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia is necessary for providing timely care and treatment. (highwire.org)
  • The World Health Organization estimates that one in three newborn infant deaths are due to pneumonia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Each year, Europe suffers from 230,000 deaths caused by pneumonia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Community acquired pneumonia causes more deaths in Europe than any other single infectious agent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pneumonia affected 102 million children under the age of five globally in 2015, down from 120 million in 2010 (with 0.88 million deaths). (alliedacademies.org)
  • Pneumonia accounts for 16% of all deaths in children under 5 years parts of southern Africa. (who.int)
  • According to statistics on the cause of death in Korea, even if deaths from pneumonia were only 9.4 per 100,000 population in 2007, they increased to 45.4 per 100,000 population in 2018, and pneumonia was the third most common cause of death in that report [ 2 , 3 ]. (accjournal.org)
  • Pneumonia is a major cause of mortality in the United States, with a reported 49,597 deaths in 2010 [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Current strategies to reduce pneumonia deaths are through early detection and appropriate treatment of pneumonia. (frontiersin.org)
  • Primary influenza pneumonia manifests with persistent symptoms of cough, sore throat, headache, myalgia, and malaise for more than three to five days. (medscape.com)
  • The symptoms and signs of pneumonia may be subtle, especially in infants and young children. (frontiersin.org)
  • Symptoms are either severe pneumonia or large, tender lymphadenopathy with high fever, often progressing to septicemia. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Conclusions Calprotectin emerges as both a potential early marker of bacterial aetiology and a predictor for 5-year all-cause mortality in CAP, whereas PCT, PTX3 and presepsin may predict short-term outcome. (ersjournals.com)
  • Late admission to the ICU in patients with community-acquired pneumonia is associated with higher mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Relationships among initial hospital triage, disease progression and mortality in community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • The nomogram was compared with PRISM III, PEWS and PCIS in accuracy and clinical benefits in predicting in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia. (highwire.org)
  • In conclusion, a nomogram-illustrated model incorporating TTFP, ALB and LDH for predicting in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia at the early stage was established and validated. (highwire.org)
  • There is no predictive model for predicting in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia at the early stage. (highwire.org)
  • Laboratory indexes including time to first positivity of blood cultures (TTFP), serum albumin (ALB) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were closely related to in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia. (highwire.org)
  • The nomogram including TTFP, ALB and LDH was established for predicting in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia. (highwire.org)
  • This nomogram-illustrated model may be a new approach to predicting in-hospital mortality in children with pneumonia-related bacteremia. (highwire.org)
  • Objectives This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and its impact on hospital length of stay and in-hospital mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Diabetes mellitus impacts on mortality of hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • RÉSUMÉ Le vaccin contre Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) a été inclus dans le programme de vaccination du Yémen en 2005. (who.int)
  • 7 One study found that recent antibiotic use and the inability to perform activities of daily living were independently associated with antibiotic-resistant nursing home-acquired pneumonia requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission or mechanical ventilation. (aafp.org)
  • Increased admission levels of C-reactive protein, PCT and calprotectin were associated with bacterial aetiology of CAP, while increased admission levels of PCT, PTX3 and presepsin were associated with adverse short-term outcome. (ersjournals.com)
  • What is the cost of inappropriate admission of pneumonia patients? (bmj.com)
  • The impact of a delay in intensive care unit admission for community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)
  • Patients were included if they were hospitalized with pneumonia and received antibiotics within the first 48 h of admission. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Community-onset (CO) pneumonia is defined as pneumonia that occurs in the community and up to 48 h into hospital admission. (biomedcentral.com)
  • therefore, there is a great need for a reliable method to assess CO-MRSA pneumonia risk at admission. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Treatment of hospitalized patients with nursing home-acquired pneumonia requires broad-spectrum antibiotics with coverage of many gram-negative and gram-positive organisms, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus . (aafp.org)
  • Appropriate dosing of antibiotics for nursing home-acquired pneumonia is important to optimize effectiveness and avoid adverse effects. (aafp.org)
  • https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2021/03/could-efforts-to-fight-the-coronavirus-lead-to-overuse-of-antibiotics. (colgateoralhealthnetwork.com)
  • which are associated with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), are difficult to propagate, and can cause clinically indistinguishable disease patterns. (cdc.gov)
  • Episodes of community-acquired pneumonia in patients with diabetes mellitus require a longer hospital stay. (bmj.com)
  • Although miRNAs have been examined in Adv type 3-infected human laryngeal epithelial cells and Adv type 2-infected human lung fibroblast cells [ 19 , 20 ], there is no research about small RNA profiling in whole blood of Adv-infected pneumonia children. (hindawi.com)
  • It is usually neither necessary nor feasible to obtain either bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) or needle lung aspirate specimens in acute pneumonia [ 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: In 3 healthcare facilities, 9.9% of patients acquired asymptomatic carriage of toxigenic C. difficile, and 13.4% were subsequently diagnosed with CDI. (cdc.gov)
  • A controversy about the aetiology and outcome of CAP in this population still exists and more epidemiological studies are needed. (ersjournals.com)
  • This is the first large-scale study with a long-term follow-up investigating the association of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) and adverse outcome in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. (bmj.com)