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Community-acquired pneumonia
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1998-12-19. It has received 1403 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Community-acquired pneumonia.read more
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Therapy for pneumococcal bacteremia: monotherapy or combination therapy?
Charles Feldman,Ronald Anderson +1 more
TL;DR: The issue of whether the outcome of bacteremic pneumococcal infections is improved with the use of combination antibiotic therapy versus monotherapy is still not resolved and a number of recent studies that have addressed this issue are highlighted.
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Evaluation of Blind Nasotracheal Suctioning and Non bronchoscopic Mini-Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Critically Ill Patients with Infectious Pneumonia: A Preliminary Study
Pascal Meyer,Hélène Rousseau,Jean-Michel Maillet,Stéphane Thierry,Oumar Sy,Eric Vicaut,Fabrice Thiolliere,Gerald Choukroun,Karim Chergui,Guillaume Chevrel,Eric Maury +10 more
TL;DR: Blind nasotracheal suctioning confirmed via colorimetric capnography allows microbiological diagnosis, and can be enhanced by non-bronchoscopic mini-BAL, a novel and feasible way to collect bronchial secretions without fibroscopy.
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Acute cough in the elderly: aetiology, diagnosis and therapy.
John Widdicombe,Shankar Kamath +1 more
TL;DR: Clinical examination and patient history are paramount, supplemented by chest X-ray, viral and bacterial culture and serological testing, and specific antibacterial therapy may be called for, although there is dispute as to the merits of antib bacterial therapy in cases of uncertain diagnosis.
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Accuracy of lung ultrasonography in the hands of non-imaging specialists to diagnose and assess the severity of community-acquired pneumonia in adults: a systematic review.
Julie Jepsen Strøm,Pia Sperling Haugen,Malene Plejdrup Hansen,Ole Graumann,Martin Bach Jensen,Camilla Aakjær Andersen +5 more
TL;DR: In the majority of studies, LUS in the hands of the non-imaging specialists demonstrated high sensitivities and specificities in diagnosing pneumonia, however, due to problems with methodology and heterogeneity there is a need for larger studies with uniform and clearly established criteria for diagnosis and blinding.
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Plasma lipid profiling for the prognosis of 90-day mortality, in-hospital mortality, ICU admission, and severity in bacterial community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Mohammad Mehdi Banoei,Hans J. Vogel,Aalim M. Weljie,Aalim M. Weljie,Sachin Yende,Derek C. Angus,Brent W. Winston +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the decreased lysophosphatidylcholines and increased acylcarnitines are significantly associated with increased mortality in bacterial CAP, and lipid profiling can be utilized to identify patients with bacterial CAP who are at the highest risk of dying in hospital and who need ICU admission as well as the severity assessment of CAP.
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