Pneumonia

Systemic and Inhaled Corticosteroids, with or without Beta Agonists, as Adjuvant Therapy in Community Acquired Pneumonia.

Aug 3, 2020

The aim is to provide a narrative review of the role of corticosteroids, with and without inhaled beta agonist, in communityacquired pneumonia. Community and health-care associated pneumonia remain leading causes of morbidity...

Chest CT accuracy in diagnosing COVID-19 during the peak of the Italian epidemic: A retrospective correlation with RT-PCR testing and analysis of discordant cases.

Aug 3, 2020

The goal of this study was to assess chest computed tomography (CT) diagnostic accuracy in clinical practice using RT-PCR as standard of reference.From March 4th to April 9th 2020, during the peak of the Italian COVID-19...

Emotional “inflection point” in public health emergencies with the 2019 new coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) in China.

Aug 3, 2020

The outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) in Wuhan, Hubei, has caused very serious consequences and severely affected people’s lives and mental health. The outbreak will cause bad emotions such as tension,...

Impaired phagocytic function in CX3CR1 tissue-resident skeletal muscle macrophages prevents muscle recovery after influenza A virus-induced pneumonia in old mice.

Jul 30, 2020

Skeletal muscle dysfunction in survivors of pneumonia disproportionately affects older individuals in whom it causes substantial morbidity. We found that skeletal muscle recovery was impaired in old compared with young mice...

Intestinal microbiota and vaccine efficacy in children from resource poor settings – potential impact for the usefulness of probiotics?

Jul 30, 2020

Developing countries continue to contribute significantly to the global burden of childhood mortality due to infectious diseases. Infections leading to diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia and meningitis account for millions of...

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients presenting with initial gastrointestinal symptoms in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study.

Jul 30, 2020

Patients with COVID-19 could present with gastrointestinal symptoms without fever or respiratory manifestations, which could be overlooked by health care providers. We aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics of 2019 novel...

Ex vivo synthesized cytokines as a biomarker of stroke-associated pneumonia.

Jul 27, 2020

We aimed to determine a profile of ex vivo released cytokines in patients with stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and to assess the clinical utility of individual cytokines and their combination as a biomarker of SAP.We included...

Care complexity individual factors associated with adverse events and in-hospital mortality.

Jul 27, 2020

Measuring the impact of care complexity on health outcomes, based on psychosocial, biological and environmental circumstances, is important in order to detect predictors of early deterioration of inpatients. We aimed to identify...

Comparison between esomeprazole 20 mg Vs 40 mg as stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) in critically ill patients: A retrospective cohort study.

Jul 27, 2020

Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are at high risk of developing upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to GI stress ulceration (SU). The major independent risk factors for the development of GI...

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