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Showing 1 to 20 of 404 for “"Pneumonia"”.
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Bacterial pneumonia hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality in Texas, 1999-2007
Bacterial pneumonia has a disproportionate impact on the elderly. It is considered as an ambulatory care-sensitive condition by the Agency for Healthcare and Research (AHRQ), for which good outpatient care can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization or for which early intervention can …
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mHealth for pneumonia prevention
Pneumonia continues to be one of the leading killers of children under-five with 90,000 children dying annually in Pakistan attributed to delayed care-seeking for pneumonia secondary to impaired illness perception of caregivers of children under-five. WHO and UNICEF have emphasized the …
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Severe community-acquired pneumonia
… the current knowledge of community-acquired pneumonia, including its classification, pathogenesis, pathology, aetiology, diagnosis, and antibiotic therapy and report my experience with severe community-acquired pneumonia in patients requiring admission to our respiratory intensive care unit. …
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Gyermekkori köhögés, pneumonia és abscessus
… fertőzött anyag aspirációja során alakul ki. Pneumonia talaján, pulmonális abscessus kialakulása, a korai és megfelelő antibiotikum terápiának köszönhetően, minimálisra csökkent, azonban, ahogy azt az esetismertetés is igazolja, esetenként előfordulhat, emiatt szükségszerűen mindig gondolnunk …
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Pneumonia Detection with Game-Theoretic Rough Sets
Pneumonia causes severe repercussions if not acted upon at the right time. Machine learning has been applied to classify chest X-ray images into pneumonia-positive and pneumonia-negative classes to allow an early diagnosis and support medical experts’ decisions about pneumonia. Nonetheless, the …
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Clinical evaluation of fibrotic idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
… patients with fibrotic idiopathic interstitial pneumonia was randomised to receive co-trimoxazole or placebo for 12 months in addition to usual care. Measurements were made of forced vitalcapacity (FVC), and quality adjusted life years (QALYs). All-cause mortality, costs, and adverse events were …
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Ventilator associated pneumonia in major paediatric burns
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Mechanisms and measurements of sialidase in pneumonia
Streptococcus pneumonia is a major human pathogen that resides in the upper airway and nasopharynx. It colonizes asymptomatically but can spread to other regions in the host body causing diseases such as bacteremia, otitis media and meningitis. This pathogen has evolved to evade the host-immune …
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Growth of Pigs With Viral and Bacterial Pneumonia
Infection with PRRSV increased serum IL-1beta and IL-6, increased MSTN and mRNA in skeletal muscle, and decreased FI, WG, PA and the mass of several skeletal muscles, but neither Mh nor the MhxPRRSV interaction were significant. The Mh-induced lung lesions, however, were 3- to 5-times greater in …
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How Peruvian Mothers Appraise Pneumonia and the Predictors of their Intention to seek Medical Care when their Children have Signs of Pneumonia
<p>Pneumonia ranks first in health problems demanding attention, and second in the cause of mortality for children under five years old in Peru (Toledo, & Minaya, 1999). Studies about behavioral determinants that influence mothers to seek medical help for their child with signs of pneumonia do not …
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The treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in ambulatory patients
… durchsucht: COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTION, PNEUMONIA, RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION und ANTIBIOTICS. Die Literaturverzeichnisse der ausgewählten Studien wurden auf weitere relevante Artikel durchsucht. Alle RCT, die ein oder mehrere Antibiotika prüften und deren diagnostische Kriterien und …
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Inducible Epithelial Resistance Against Acute Viral Pneumonia and Chronic Asthma
<p>Viral pneumonia remains a global health threat despite worldwide vaccination and therapeutic programs. The influenza pandemic of 1918 and SARS-CoV2 pandemic of 2019-2020 are cautionary reminders demanding the need for novel treatment strategies. Moreover, in addition to causing acute disease, …
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Inducible Epithelial Resistance Against Acute Viral Pneumonia and Chronic Asthma
<p>Viral pneumonia remains a global health threat despite worldwide vaccination and therapeutic programs. The influenza pandemic of 1918 and SARS-CoV2 pandemic of 2019-2020 are cautionary reminders demanding the need for novel treatment strategies. Moreover, in addition to causing acute disease, …
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Expanding inducible epithelial resistance against pneumonia: novel virus, novel receptor
<p>Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide and presents a continuing risk among immunocompromised patients. Our work has been focused for many years on the phenomenon of inducible epithelial resistance, where activation of the innate immune response in the airway epithelium is …
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Effective Screening for Pneumonia: A Challenge for the 21st Century
… hospital with a diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia (CAP), and to determine who among them qualify for the pneumonia vaccine, and what percentage appropriately or inappropriately received the vaccine prior to discharge.</p> <p><strong>Method</strong>: A retrospective quantitative design was …
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