Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy for Severe Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in Non-Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients: Retrospective Study of 31 Patients
| Autor: | Christophe Delclaux, Ghislaine Leleu, François Lebargy, Gibba Amraoui, Benoît Schlemmer, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Jean-Ralph Zahar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
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Male Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment HIV Infections Immunocompromised Host Adrenal Cortex Hormones Reference Values Intensive care Internal medicine Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination medicine Humans Aged Retrospective Studies Mechanical ventilation Chemotherapy business.industry Pneumonia Pneumocystis Mortality rate Respiratory disease Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Survival Rate Pneumonia Treatment Outcome Infectious Diseases Pneumocystis carinii Drug Therapy Combination Female business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 29:670-672 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/598651 |
| Popis: | The aim of this retrospective study was to assess whether corticosteroid adjunctive therapy (CAT) could prevent death in immunocompromised patients with severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) who do not have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, similarly to what has been demonstrated for HIV-infected patients. The charts of all non-HIV-infected patients who were admitted to two medical intensive care units between 1988 and 1996 because of severe PCP, defined by an arterial oxygen pressure (determined while the patient was breathing room air) of |
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