ALLMedicine™ Pneumonia Center

Jun 26th, 2022 - Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) in advanced prostatic cancer patients not receiving high-dose glucocorticoids has been reported rarely. A 73-year-old man underwent chemotherapy with cisplatin and docetaxel for advanced prostatic cancer. Aft...

Jun 26th, 2022 - The influenza virus is an infectious disease with acute respiratory tract infections, caused secondary bacterial infections and death. In this study, we aimed to determine which predictors were associated with the need for high-flow nasal cannula ...

Jun 25th, 2022 - The COVID-19 pandemic, which first appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and spread rapidly around the globe, continues to be a serious threat today. Rapid and accurate diagnostic methods are needed to identify, isolate and treat patients as ...

Jun 25th, 2022 - Studies of the respiratory tract microbiome primarily focus on airway and lung microbial diversity, but it is still unclear how these microbial communities may be affected by intubation and long periods in intensive care units (ICU), an aspect tha...

Jun 25th, 2022 - A man in his 70s presents with 12 months of progressive dyspnoea, sicca symptoms and Raynaud's phenomenon. Serological testing and tear duct biopsy confirm Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Bilateral nodular-cystic appearances highly suggestive of lymphoid...

Nov 24th, 2021 - The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) came under the attention of the international medical community when China first notified the World Health Organization of a pneumonia outbreak of then-unknown etiology in Wuhan in December 2019. Since then,...

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 12th, 2021 - Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a combination of autonomic failure plus cerebellar syndrome and/or parkinsonism. Dysphagia is a frequent and disabling symptom in MSA and its occurrence within 5 years ...

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...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a slow-growing bacterium that establishes latent infection in millions of persons worldwide, but only leads to disease in 10% or less of these individuals. It typically causes pneumonia, however dissemination to...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Methylation-mediated silencing of genes is an epigenetic mechanism implicated in carcinogenesis; agents that inhibit this mechanism are of clinical interest because of their potential to re-activate silenced tumor suppressor genes. Two...

Jun 24th, 2022 - OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to analyze bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from patients with lung infiltrates in order to discover new biomarkers and protein/peptide expression patterns that are associated with specific types of pulm...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Lactoferrin (LF) is iron-binding glycoprotein of the transferrin family that is expressed and secreted by glandular cells and is found in most body fluids . It appears at especially high concentrations in mammalian milk and was first identified in...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Viral infections in the normal host are usually self-limited as the innate and acquired immune systems mount successful antiviral responses. However, in some instances, apparently immunocompetent persons manifest infections with viruses that would...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - (Reuters Health) - Pfizer's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine RSVpreF has an efficacy of 86.7% in healthy adults ages 18 to 50, according to results from a small phase 2a study published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. The t...

Jun 21st, 2022 - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare form of chronic, progressive fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown etiology. Global incidence and prevalence of IPF are between 0.09 and 1.30 per 10,000 people, according to Mei and colleagues. I...

Jun 20th, 2022 - A study of elderly patients with HER2-positive/HR-negative metastatic breast cancer finds a significantly shorter median overall survival in actual clinical practice than younger counterparts. After 46 months of treatment, the survival rate was on.

Jun 13th, 2022 - LONDON (Reuters) - GSK aims to get its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine to regulators for review later this year, after interim data showed the vaccine was effective in a keenly-watched late-stage study involving older adults. RSV is a le...

Jun 6th, 2022 - Despite advances in the management of skin and soft tissue infections and community-acquired pneumonia, challenges persist. This 2-part supplement to The Journal of Family Practice summarizes the findings of 3 phase 3 studies of omadacycline.