ALLMedicine™ Pneumonia Center

Sep 19th, 2020 - Ceftolozane/tazobactam (C/T) is a combination of a novel cephalosporin with tazobactam, recently approved for the treatment of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. The plasma pharmacokinetics (PK) of a 3-g dose of C/T (2 g ceftol...

Sep 19th, 2020 - Respiratory viral infections are known causes of mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Here, we report a unique case of a child with viral pneumonia caused by coinfection with human metapneumovirus (MPV), respi...

Sep 19th, 2020 - Oropharyngeal dysphagia is an emerging age-related disorder that affects 23% of inpatients leading to malnutrition, dehydration, or aspiration pneumonia. Anticholinergic drugs can cause reduced peristalsis and dry mouth, both related to dysphagia....

Sep 18th, 2020 - People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of pneumonia and herpes zoster, yet other common infection types have not been explored. Anxiety and depression are more prevalent in IBD; however, the impact of these conditions o...

Sep 18th, 2020 - Ischaemic stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) are common after pneumonia and are associated with long-term mortality. Aspirin may attenuate this risk and should be explored as a therapeutic option. We extracted all patients with pneumonia, aged ...

Jun 20th, 2020 - Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines have improved the treatment and outcomes of patients with CAP, primarily by standardization of initial empirical therapy. But current society-published guidelines exclude immunocompromised patients. Th...

May 17th, 2020 - On 31st December 2019, China notified the World Health Organization of an outbreak of atypical pneumonia from patients at a local seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei, China, responsible for a new coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Cor...

May 7th, 2020 - Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic.|2020|Metlay JP,Waterer GW,|epidemiology,therapy,epidemiology,therapy,epidemiology,epidemiology,microbiology,therapy,epidemiology,

May 5th, 2020 - Pneumonia is one of the most common acute infections and the single greatest infectious cause of death in children worldwide. In uncomplicated, community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent patients, the diagnosis is clinical and imaging has no ...

Apr 23rd, 2020 - Routine screening CT for the identification of COVID-19 pneumonia is currently not recommended by most radiology societies. However, the number of CTs performed in persons under investigation (PUI) for COVID-19 has increased. We also anticipate th...

Mar 30th, 2021 - Fluconazole tablets USP are indicated for the treatment of: 1.Vaginal candidiasis (vaginal yeast infections due to Candida). 2.Oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis. In open noncomparative studies of relatively small numbers of patients, flucon...

Sep 19th, 2020 - Ceftolozane/tazobactam (C/T) is a combination of a novel cephalosporin with tazobactam, recently approved for the treatment of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. The plasma pharmacokinetics (PK) of a 3-g dose of C/T (2 g ceftol...

Sep 19th, 2020 - Respiratory viral infections are known causes of mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Here, we report a unique case of a child with viral pneumonia caused by coinfection with human metapneumovirus (MPV), respi...

Sep 19th, 2020 - Oropharyngeal dysphagia is an emerging age-related disorder that affects 23% of inpatients leading to malnutrition, dehydration, or aspiration pneumonia. Anticholinergic drugs can cause reduced peristalsis and dry mouth, both related to dysphagia....

Sep 18th, 2020 - People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of pneumonia and herpes zoster, yet other common infection types have not been explored. Anxiety and depression are more prevalent in IBD; however, the impact of these conditions o...

Jul 13th, 2020 - ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will extend its second coronavirus lockdown by two weeks until the end of July and again offer financial aid to those who have lost their source of income, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Monday. Kazakhstan, w...

Jul 13th, 2020 - GENEVA (Reuters) - Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s emergencies programme, said on Friday that an outbreak of pneumonia in Kazakhstan, reported to be highly lethal, was “certainly on our radar”. But he also said it was possible i...

Jul 10th, 2020 - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Kazakhstan dismissed as incorrect on Friday a warning by China’s embassy for its citizens to guard against an outbreak of pneumonia in the central Asian nation that it described as being more lethal than the coronavirus. In a ...

Jul 7th, 2020 - A general view shows the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that experts from the global body would tr...

Jul 3rd, 2020 - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it had given conditional approval for the use of antiviral remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making it the region’s first authorised therapy ...