ALLMedicine™ Bacterial Pneumonia Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - There has been a sustained increase in the utilization of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) over the last decade, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We set out to describe our institutional experience with extremely ...

Mar 17th, 2023 - Respiratory viral infections (RVI) are associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) and mortality in lung transplant recipients (LTRs). However, the prevalence and impact of secondary invasive fungal infections (IFIs) post RVIs in LTR...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Infections are the most common complication in patients after lung transplantation and the main cause of death at all stages after transplantation; therefore, awareness regarding the occurrence of infectious pneumonia after lung transplantation is...

Mar 14th, 2023 - This study is aimed at exploring the ability to use heparin-binding protein (HBP) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) to differentially diagnose bacterial infection from viral infection for severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in criticall...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Practice Essentials Pediatric pneumonia is responsible for the deaths of more than 800,000 young children worldwide each year, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).[1] These deaths occur almost exclusively in children with unde...

Mar 9th, 2023 - COPD has become one of the major causes of ill health throughout the world. COPD has major economic impact being the second commonest causes of hospital admission and days lost to work in the UK where an estimated 10% of the population over 40 are...

Mar 8th, 2023 - This study aims to compare treatment with Imipenem/Cilastatin-XNW4107 (IMI-XNW4107) with imipenem/cilastatin/relebactam (IMI/REL) in participants with hospital-acquired or ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP or VAPB, respectively). The...

Mar 7th, 2023 - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of omadacycline as compared to moxifloxacin in the treatment of adults with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

Feb 28th, 2023 - The MeMed BV® is a diagnostic test newly approved by the FDA to assess the likelihood of bacterial vs. viral respiratory infections based on protein biomarkers in blood. This study aims to identify the level of agreement between the results of the...

Feb 23rd, 2023 - Community-acquired Pneumonia (CAP) represents the single largest cause of death and morbidity in children worldwide (1). Respiratory viruses are the most common cause of CAP in preschool children, followed by bacteria. The atypical bacteria Mycopl...

Mar 7th, 2023 - HONOLULU – With so many kids missing childhood vaccinations during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, think measles in patients who present with high fever, cough, and a maculopapular eruption. Dr.

Dec 1st, 2022 - People with acute respiratory illness during the pandemic suffered similar levels of poor well-being in the months afterward whether they tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 or not, a registry study showed. In a cohort of people who all had initial sym...

Nov 9th, 2022 - A 70-year-old veteran with a history notable for type 2 diabetes mellitus, complicated by peripheral neuropathy and bilateral foot ulceration, and previous pulmonary tuberculosis (treated in June 2013) presented to an outside medical facility with.

Oct 25th, 2022 - In early October, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, tore through Victoria Thiele's Indiana home. Her three older children had manageable symptoms. But her 8-week-old newborn ended up developing a severe case. Thiele, whose family lives in Fort ...

Oct 21st, 2022 - Patients with iron deficiency anemia who developed bacterial pneumonia showed improved outcomes compared to those without iron deficiency anemia, based on data from more than 450,000 individuals in the National Inpatient Sample. Iron deficiency is...