Pneumonia

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2-O, 3-O-desulfated heparin inhibits neutrophil elastase-induced HMGB-1 secretion and airway inflammation. 
  • A Phase II Randomized, Double-blind, Multicenter Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Iclaprim Versus Vancomycin for the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia Suspected or Confirmed to be Due to Gram-positive Pathogens. 
  • A model to predict risk of postpartum infection after Caesarean delivery. 
  • A multicenter analysis of the ED diagnosis of pneumonia. 
  • A multicenter pilot study of a bronchial valve for the treatment of severe emphysema. 
  • A patient with newly diagnosed melanoma and pulmonary nodules. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria Fever Without Source or Unknown Origin-Child. 
  • Acute infectious morbidity in multiple gestation. 
  • Adenovirus-mediated transfer of the CFTR gene to lung of nonhuman primates: toxicity study. 
  • Adult pneumonia in a general hospital. Etiology and host risk factors. 
  • Airway inflammation and responsiveness in prostaglandin H synthase-deficient mice exposed to bacterial lipopolysaccharide. 
  • Allergic inflammation induces a persistent mechanistic switch in thromboxane-mediated airway constriction in the mouse. 
  • Alloimmune lung injury induced by local innate immune activation through inhaled lipopolysaccharide. 
  • Analysis of Factors Associated With In-hospital Mortality in Lung Cancer Chemotherapy Patients With Neutropenia. 
  • Anti-Jo-1 syndrome presenting as cryptogenic organizing pneumonia. 
  • Antibiotic concentrations in human parapneumonic effusions. 
  • Association of Ozone Exposure With Cardiorespiratory Pathophysiologic Mechanisms in Healthy Adults. 
  • Association of respiratory viruses with outcomes of severe childhood pneumonia in Botswana. 
  • Atypical pathogens and challenges in community-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Bench to bedside: targeting coagulation and fibrinolysis in acute lung injury. 
  • Bioaerosols and innate immune responses in airway diseases. 
  • Bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy in patients with cancer and hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Carfilzomib, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone for relapsed or refractory myeloma. 
  • Cat germs! Pleuropulmonary pasteurella infection in an old man. 
  • Cause specific mortality patterns among the oldest old: multiple cause of death trends 1968 to 1980. 
  • Cefazolin in the treatment of bacterial pneumonia. 
  • Cellular and humoral immune responses to viral antigens create barriers to lung-directed gene therapy with recombinant adenoviruses. 
  • Chest Radiographic Findings and Outcomes of Pneumonia Among Children in Botswana. 
  • Childhood Pneumonia. 
  • Chronic treatment in vivo with β-adrenoceptor agonists induces dysfunction of airway β(2) -adrenoceptors and exacerbates lung inflammation in mice. 
  • Clara cell secretory protein-deficient mice differ from wild-type mice in inflammatory chemokine expression to oxygen and ozone, but not to endotoxin. 
  • Clara cells attenuate the inflammatory response through regulation of macrophage behavior. 
  • Coexisting endogenous and exogenous lipoid pneumonia and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a patient with neurodevelopmental disease. 
  • Comparison of the efficacy of IGIV-C, 10% (caprylate/chromatography) and IGIV-SD, 10% as replacement therapy in primary immune deficiency. A randomized double-blind trial. 
  • Comparisons of ultrafine and fine particles in their associations with biomarkers reflecting physiological pathways. 
  • Continuous intravenous cimetidine decreases stress-related upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage without promoting pneumonia. 
  • Delayed onset of infectious mononucleosis associated with acquired agammaglobulinemia and red cell aplasia. 
  • Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Development of a Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index (MSTFI) Using a Nationwide Database and Its Association with Inpatient Morbidity, Mortality, and Length of Stay After Spine Surgery. 
  • Diabetes and early postoperative outcomes following lumbar fusion. 
  • Does This Child Have Pneumonia?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review. 
  • Editorial commentary: "excess readmissions" for pneumonia: a dilemma with a penalty. 
  • Effect Of A Large-Scale Social Franchising And Telemedicine Program On Childhood Diarrhea And Pneumonia Outcomes In India. 
  • Effect of Endobronchial Coils vs Usual Care on Exercise Tolerance in Patients With Severe Emphysema: The RENEW Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of erionite on the pleural mesothelium of the Fischer 344 rat. 
  • Effect of obesity on pulmonary inflammation induced by acute ozone exposure: role of interleukin-6. 
  • Effect of subchronic in vivo exposure to nitrogen dioxide on lung tissue inflammation, airway microvascular leakage, and in vitro bronchial muscle responsiveness in rats. 
  • Epidemiology of legionella pneumonia and factors associated with legionella-related mortality at a tertiary care center. 
  • Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Pneumonia Nurse Navigator Program. 
  • Evaluation of a social franchising and telemedicine programme and the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, Bihar, India. 
  • Factors identified as precipitating hospital admissions for heart failure and clinical outcomes: findings from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Feasibility and safety of moderate hypothermia after massive hemispheric infarction. 
  • Femur fractures and lung complications: a prospective randomized study of reaming. 
  • Fungal diagnostics in pneumonia. 
  • Harmonisation in study design and outcomes in paediatric antibiotic clinical trials: a systematic review. 
  • Has Public Reporting of Hospital Readmission Rates Affected Patient Outcomes?: Analysis of Medicare Claims Data. 
  • Hospital-acquired pneumonia. Attributable mortality and morbidity. 
  • Hydrogen Sulfide Prevents and Partially Reverses Ozone-Induced Features of Lung Inflammation and Emphysema in Mice. 
  • Hyponatremia in pediatric patients with HIV-1 infection. 
  • Imaging of bacterial pulmonary infection in the immunocompetent patient. 
  • Impact of a combined pediatric and adult pneumococcal immunization program on adult pneumonia incidence and mortality in Nicaragua. 
  • Impact of postoperative pneumonia following pituitary surgery. 
  • Improving outcomes after esophagectomy: the importance of preventing postoperative pneumonia. 
  • Incidence and severity of acute complications after spinal cord injury. 
  • Incidence, risk factors, and mortality from pneumonia developing late after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Infection related never events in pediatric patients undergoing spinal fusion procedures in United States: prevalence and predictors. 
  • Inflammatory and antioxidant gene expression in C57BL/6J mice after lethal and sublethal ozone exposures. 
  • Influence of diagnostic and treatment factors in the population pharmacokinetics of gentamicin. 
  • Inhaled carbon monoxide and hyperoxic lung injury in rats. 
  • Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 deficiency prolongs survival and protects against the development of pulmonary inflammation during murine lupus. 
  • Intermittent hypoxia during recovery from neonatal hyperoxic lung injury causes long-term impairment of alveolar development: A new rat model of BPD. 
  • Iron supplementation decreases severity of allergic inflammation in murine lung. 
  • Isolated intrapulmonary adenopathy in leukemia. 
  • Kerley B lines in total anomalous pulmonaru venous connection below the diaphragm (type 3). 
  • Lack of effectiveness of the 23-valent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine in reducing all-cause pneumonias among healthy young military recruits: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium longum attenuate lung injury and inflammatory response in experimental sepsis. 
  • Leukocyte-derived IL-10 reduces subepithelial fibrosis associated with chronically inhaled endotoxin. 
  • Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality. 
  • Long-term results of a postoperative pneumonia prevention program for the inpatient surgical ward. 
  • Long-term treatment with ruxolitinib for patients with myelofibrosis: 5-year update from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 COMFORT-I trial. 
  • Loss of basal cells precedes bronchiolitis obliterans-like pathological changes in a murine model of chlorine gas inhalation. 
  • Low prevalence of Pneumocystis jirovecii lung colonization in Ugandan HIV-infected patients hospitalized with non-Pneumocystis pneumonia. 
  • Lung inflammation stalls Th17-cell migration en route to the central nervous system during the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. 
  • Lung inflammation, injury, and proliferative response after repetitive particulate hexavalent chromium exposure. 
  • Macrolides and Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia-Time for a Paradigm Shift? 
  • Management of pneumonia in the nursing home. 
  • Miliary aspergillosis associated with alcoholism. 
  • Mortality and time to extubation in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase 1 is essential for ozone-induced oxidative stress in mice and humans. 
  • Neisseria meningitidis, a respiratory pathogen? 
  • Nrf2 promotes alveolar mitochondrial biogenesis and resolution of lung injury in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in mice. 
  • Nurse staffing and adverse events in hospitalized children. 
  • Observational cohort study of HIV-infected African children. 
  • Ofloxacin versus standard therapy in treatment of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization. Pneumonia Study Group. 
  • Open lung biopsy for the diagnosis of acute, diffuse pulmonary infiltrates in the immunosuppressed patient. 
  • Opportunistic fungal pneumonia. 
  • Organizing pneumonia in mice and men. 
  • Outcomes after esophagectomy: a ten-year prospective cohort. 
  • Outpatient consolidation treatment with clofarabine in a phase 2 study of older adult patients with previously untreated acute myelogenous leukemia. 
  • Oxidative stress and inflammation contribute to lung toxicity after a common breast cancer chemotherapy regimen. 
  • PROLONGED RUPTURE OF FETAL MEMBRANES. 
  • Patient Body Mass Index is an Independent Predictor of 30-Day Hospital Readmission After Elective Spine Surgery. 
  • Patient Portals: Who uses them? What features do they use? And do they reduce hospital readmissions? 
  • Peripheral middle lobe syndrome. 
  • Phenoxybenzamine in septic shock. 
  • Platelet activation and pneumonia: is soluble p-selectin the right marker? 
  • Pleural fluid in infants and children. 
  • Pneumonia due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi and cerebral abscesses due to Emericella nidulans in a bone marrow transplant recipient. 
  • Pneumonia hospitalizations in the US Navy and Marine Corps: rates and risk factors for 6,522 admissions, 1981-1991. 
  • Pneumonia in bone marrow transplant patients. 
  • Precipitating Clinical Factors, Heart Failure Characterization, and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure With Reduced, Borderline, and Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Presence of gingivitis and periodontitis significantly increases hospital charges in patients undergoing heart valve surgery. 
  • Procalcitonin: The Right Answer but to Which Question? 
  • Protection against autoimmunity in nonlymphopenic hosts by CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells is antigen-specific and requires IL-10 and TGF-beta. 
  • Pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients without HIV infection: factors associated with disseminated disease. 
  • Pulmonary effects of inhalation of spark-generated silver nanoparticles in Brown-Norway and Sprague-Dawley rats. 
  • Pulmonary infiltrates and eosinophilia in an FK 506 liver transplant recipient. 
  • Pulmonary phenotype of CCSP/UG deficient mice: a consequence of CCSP deficiency or altered Clara cell function? 
  • Pulmonary toxicity after exposure to military-relevant heavy metal tungsten alloy particles. 
  • Quinolone safety and efficacy more important than potency. 
  • Quinolones for community-acquired pneumonia. 
  • RU486 blocks the anti-inflammatory effects of exercise in a murine model of allergen-induced pulmonary inflammation. 
  • Radiographic findings in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. 
  • Radiology of acute diffuse lung disease in the immunocompetent host. 
  • Radionuclide quantitation of lung function in patients with pulmonary disorders. 
  • Re: "Community-acquired pneumonia". 
  • Recent advances in the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of fungal pneumonia. 
  • Recognition of early mortality in multiple myeloma by a prediction matrix. 
  • Recurrent infection, chronic diarrhea, and failure to thrive in a seven-month-old infant. 
  • Redox regulation of mitophagy in the lung during murine Staphylococcus aureus sepsis. 
  • Reducing hospital morbidity and mortality following esophagectomy. 
  • Rejection criteria for endotracheal aspirates from adults. 
  • Rejection criteria for endotracheal aspirates from pediatric patients. 
  • Relapsing polychondritis affecting the lower respiratory tract. 
  • Relationship between patient satisfaction with inpatient care and hospital readmission within 30 days. 
  • Reoperation for bleeding in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery: incidence, risk factors, time trends, and outcomes. 
  • Rhodococcus equi causing human pulmonary infection: review of 29 cases. 
  • Risk factors for mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units with pneumonia. 
  • Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia: comparing adult critical-care populations. 
  • Role of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 4 in Neutrophil Activation and Acute Lung Injury. 
  • Severe pulmonary toxicity after myeloablative conditioning using total body irradiation: an assessment of risk factors. 
  • Sickle hemoglobin (HbS) allele and sickle cell disease: a HuGE review. 
  • Similar but not the same: normobaric and hyperbaric pulmonary oxygen toxicity, the role of nitric oxide. 
  • Suboptimal HIV Testing Among Patients Admitted With Pneumonia: A Missed Opportunity. 
  • Successful treatment of Ochroconis gallopavum infection in an immunocompetent host. 
  • TRPV4 inhibition counteracts edema and inflammation and improves pulmonary function and oxygen saturation in chemically induced acute lung injury. 
  • Telavancin for hospital-acquired pneumonia: clinical response and 28-day survival. 
  • Temporal trends in U. S. multiple cause of death mortality data: 1968 to 1977. 
  • The cardiopulmonary effects of ambient air pollution and mechanistic pathways: a comparative hierarchical pathway analysis. 
  • The characteristics and mortality of outpatient-acquired pneumonia. 
  • The effect of exposure to wood smoke on outcomes of childhood pneumonia in Botswana. 
  • The evaluation of screening methods to identify medically unnecessary hospital stay for patients with pneumonia. 
  • The expanding roles of caveolin proteins in microbial pathogenesis. 
  • The impact of blood transfusion on the occurrence of pneumonitis in primary cytomegalovirus infection after liver transplantation. 
  • The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India. 
  • The lung is protected from spontaneous inflammation by autophagy in myeloid cells. 
  • The neuropeptide neuromedin U stimulates innate lymphoid cells and type 2 inflammation. 
  • Thoracoscopic lobectomy: a safe and effective strategy for patients receiving induction therapy for non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Ticlopidine-associated pancytopenia: implications of an acetylsalicylic acid alternative. 
  • Timing of Complications Occurring Within 30 Days After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Toll-like receptor 4 antagonist (E5564) prevents the chronic airway response to inhaled lipopolysaccharide. 
  • Total shoulder arthroplasty in patients with HIV infection: complications, comorbidities, and trends. 
  • Towards precision medicine: Accurate predictive modeling of infectious complications in combat casualties. 
  • Transient gain of effector function by CD8+ T cells undergoing peripheral tolerance to high-dose self-antigen. 
  • Transthoracic versus transhiatal esophagectomy: a prospective study of 945 patients. 
  • Treatment Failures and Excess Mortality Among HIV-Exposed, Uninfected Children With Pneumonia. 
  • Umbralisib, a novel PI3Kδ and casein kinase-1ε inhibitor, in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and lymphoma: an open-label, phase 1, dose-escalation, first-in-human study. 
  • Ventilator-associated pneumonia: the role of ventilator management strategies. 
  • Video-assisted wedge resection and local radiotherapy for peripheral lung cancer in high-risk patients: the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 9335, a phase II, multi-institutional cooperative group study. 
  • Which Complications Matter Most? Prioritizing Quality Improvement in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • Xenon-133 measurement of regional ventilation. 
  • [Etiologic characteristics of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia in Beijing]. 
  • [Finding of so-called L E cells in a pneumonitis focus before death from acute lupus erythematosus]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Chen, Jun, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Craciunescu, Oana, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Jordt, Sven Eric, Associate Professor in Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
  • Kraft, Bryan David, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Mohanan, Manoj, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Economics
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Shinohara, Mari L., Associate Professor of Immunology, Immunology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Vanderburg, Sky, House Staff, Medicine