Sentences with phrase «acquired pneumonia»

Long - term mortality after community - acquired pneumonia — impacts of diabetes and newly discovered hyperglycaemia: a prospective, observational cohort study

Risk of community - acquired pneumonia and use of gastric acid - suppressive drugs.

(Hospital - acquired pneumonia tends to be more serious.)

One meta - analysis found acid - blocking drugs suppress immunity, increasing your risk for both community - and hospital - acquired pneumonia.

This is known as «hospital - acquired pneumonia» or «healthcare - associated pneumonia.»

Approximately 1 in 4 (22.1 percent) adults prescribed an antibiotic in an outpatient setting for community - acquired pneumonia does not respond to treatment, according to a new study presented at the 2017 American Thoracic Society International...

«Community acquired pneumonia increases long - term morbidity, mortality.»

Hospital - acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator - associated pneumonia (VAP)-- which account for 20 to 25 percent of hospital - acquired infections — should be treated with shorter courses of antibiotics than they typically are, according to new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

FDA advisers at last week's meeting did recommend approval of telavancin (Vibativ)-- a derivative of vancomycin — for the treatment of hospital - acquired pneumonia when alternative drugs are not suitable.

Dr. Harri Hemila, University of Helsinki, Finland, studied whether vitamin E supplementation might influence the risk of community - acquired pneumonia.

Although the evidence of benefit from vitamin E against community - acquired pneumonia in elderly males is strong in this analysis, the overall findings about vitamin E have been complex.

«We found that it is feasible to package the CIP - BP dry powder in an inhaler that can treat bacterial infections associated with community - acquired pneumonia,» adds Heng.

Community - acquired pneumonia, a type of lung inflammation contracted outside of a hospital or nursing - home setting, is most often caused by infections with bacteria, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus.

Canani et al., «Therapy with gastric acidity inhibitors increases the risk of acute gastroenteritis and community - acquired pneumonia in children.»

The clinical trial, referred to as Capita, showed that Prevenar 13 prevented community - acquired pneumonia in the elderly subjects.

Not exact matches

«When you get resistance for a common infection, it's a big problem, which we're sort of ignoring a bit like global warming,» said Dr. Colin Broom, the CEO of Nabriva Therapeutics, a biotech firm developing a new antibiotic to treat community - acquired bacterial pneumonia.

Babies and young children may get pneumonia from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), for example, and infants may get it from group B streptococcus (GBS) acquired at birth, during delivery.

CA - MRSA (Community - acquired MRSA) has now emerged as an epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive, fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia, severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.

Using genome sequencing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues have tracked the evolution of the antibiotic - resistant bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258), an important agent of hospital - acquired infections.

When the scientists added them to cultures of six bacteria known to cause food poisoning, pneumonia, hospital - acquired infections, and ear and heart infections, the peptoids wiped them all out.

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

P. aeruginosa, for instance, is a multidrug - resistant pathogen associated with hospital - acquired infections, including ventilator - associated pneumonia.

«Globally, resistance to some strains of pneumonia is increasing, so it is imperative to increase development in the R&D pipeline of new antibacterial therapies, especially infections that are acquired in - hospitals, where the pathogens are highly resistant.»

This finding, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), creates a promising avenue for the development of innovative strategies to treat a wide variety of diseases and hospital - acquired infections like pneumonia, bloodstream and urinary tract infection.

In addition, patients can acquire post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonia.

The emergence and global expansion of hypervirulent and multidrug - resistant (MDR) clones of K. pneumoniae have been increasingly reported in community - acquired and nosocomial infections.

And doctors say if you're fighting a cold or the flu, you're more susceptible to acquiring a bacterial form of pneumonia too.

All coughing puppies, especially newly acquired puppies, should be evaluated for signs of pneumonia.

Opportunistic infection shall include but will not be limited to pneumosystis carinii pneumonia, organism of Kaposi's Sarcoma, central nervous system lymphoma, and / other malignancies now known or which become known as causes of death in the presence of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome;

Jay Helsinger died suddenly of pneumonia in 2004, but Susan continued to run the brokerage, Custom Real Estate Group, until Douglas Elliman Real Estate acquired it in 2010.