ALLMedicine™ Pneumonia Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Although the assessment of nutrition is essential for stroke patients, detailed associations between nutritional status at admission, subsequent complications, and clinical outcomes in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are unclear...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - We describe the case of a 30-year-old man who presented to our institution with hypoxia and widespread pulmonary infiltrates managed initially as COVID-19 before receiving a new diagnosis of HIV-associated Kaposi sarcoma (KS) with widespread pulmo...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Risk of infections in patients with solid cancers and bone metastases (BM) and the subsequent impact on prognosis is unclear. We examined the risk of infections among patients with cancer diagnosed with BM and the subsequent impact of infections o...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) is the most frequent post-transplant tumour entity resulting from immunosuppression treatment that is needed to prevent organ rejection. Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are at higher risk for CSCC a...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Recovery from pneumococcal (Spn) pneumonia induces development of tissue resident memory CD4+ TRM cells, BRM cells, and antibody secreting plasma cells in experienced lungs. These tissue resident lymphocytes confer protection against subsequent le...

Apr 27th, 2021 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Hematologic and oncologic patients with chemo- or immunotherapy-related immunosuppression are at substantial risk for bacterial infections and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PcP). As bacterial resistances are increasing worldwide and new resear...

Apr 6th, 2021 - Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chro...

Nov 4th, 2020 - The RSNA expert consensus statement and CO-RADS reporting system assist radiologists in describing lung imaging findings in a standardized manner in patients under investigation for COVID-19 pneumonia and provide clarity in communication with othe...

Oct 11th, 2020 - Guidelines for pneumonia recommend empiric dual antipseudomonal therapy in patients with specific risk factors. However, there is lack of consensus on when to use dual antipseudomonal therapy as the recommendations are rated as weak, based on low-...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Swallowing impairment and VFMI are common, yet often overlooked, complications of cardiovascular surgical procedures. The true incidence of both dysphagia and VFMI in this patient population is unclear due to a lack of rigorous study using instrum...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Proof of concept, multicentre, randomized, parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled

Dec 1st, 2021 - Coccidioidomycosis (CM) is a fungal disease endemic to the southwestern United States, Northern Mexico, and parts of South America. About 150,000 CM infections are estimated to occur in the United States each year, of which 60% are thought to be a...

Nov 29th, 2021 - Covid-19 pneumonia became the worldwide, serious health problem, affecting nearly 20 million people and causing nearly one million deaths. The health systems of many countries are overwhelmed with the increased need of medical care, of the number ...

Nov 29th, 2021 - Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the most common infection diseases in the emergency department (ED). Diagnosis of pneumonia is challenging as symptoms are often weak and nonspecific and the current methods for focal and etiological di...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Key clinical point: Development of bacteremia in immunocompetent adult patients managed in the ICU for severe pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) had no effect on mortality. Main finding: In-hospital mortality (21.

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Key clinical point: Pneumococcal urinary antigen testing ( PUAT) effectuated early de-escalation of broad-spectrum antibiotics among positive patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and thus should be widely performed to substantiate anti.

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Key clinical point: Administration of ceftaroline alone or in combination resulted in lower in-hospital mortality rates in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) vs. standard therapy.

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Key clinical point: On comparing regimes recommended by the 2019 American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America (ATS/IDSA) guidelines, those containing doxycycline were associated with decreased mortality in elderly patients with.

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Key clinical point: Occurrence of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in infants aged below 2 years increases their risk for subsequent respiratory disease when between 2 and 5 years of age. Main finding: The rate of chronic respiratory disorder fr.