Etiology and prognosis of acute respiratory failure in patients with primary malignant brain tumors admitted to the intensive care unit

Autor: Léa Lemasle, Thomas Similowski, Isabelle Rivals, Marie Cantier, Alexandre Demoule, Ahmed Idbaih, Clémence Marois, Khê Hoang-Xuan, Maxens Decavèle, Hélène Prodanovic, Nicolas Weiss
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of neuro-oncology. 142(1)
ISSN: 1573-7373
Popis: Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is common and potentially fatal in patients with primary malignant brain tumors (PMBT). However, few data are available regarding its precipitating factors and prognosis. We sought to: (1) compare the causes of ARF and the outcome between patients with PMBT and patients with other peripheral solid tumors (PST), (2) identify the factors influencing ICU survival in PMBT patients. Two-center retrospective case-control study from March 1996 to May 2014. Primary central nervous system lymphomas were also included. Eighty-four patients with PMBT and 133 patients with PST were included. Acute infectious pneumonia was more frequent in PMBT than PST patients (77 vs. 36%, p
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