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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is highly common across the world. It is reported that over 90% of CAP in older adults may be due to aspiration. However, the diagnostic criteria for aspiration pneumonia (AP) have not been widely agreed.
Long-term prognosis of aspiration pneumonia was poor as a result of underlying morbidity instead of the aspiration pneumonia itself. Our findings suggest that prognostic indices for patients with aspiration pneumonia including the patient's underlying conditions should be devised.
25 sie 2022 · Purpose. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is highly common across the world. It is reported that over 90% of CAP in older adults may be due to aspiration. However, the diagnostic criteria for aspiration pneumonia (AP) have not been widely agreed. Is there a consensus on how to diagnose AP?
3 lut 2024 · Mortality was significantly higher in aspiration pneumonia than non-aspiration pneumonia during admission and at 1 year. However, independent risk factors for poor prognosis were old age, frailty and cardio-respiratory comorbidities and not the initial diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia.
1 lip 2023 · prognosis. morbidity. Acute pneumonia (AP) is a leading cause of death in the older population. An estimated 5% to 15% of community-acquired pneumonia is aspiration pneumonia (AsP), 1 which is classically dissociated because of its specific pathophysiology, which tends to affect frail older people.
13 lut 2019 · A meta-analysis of studies involving frail elderly patients showed that dysphagia increased the odds ratio for aspiration pneumonia by a factor of 9.4, but when cerebrovascular disease was also...
30 paź 2018 · Aspiration pneumonia is a common problem in older people with high mortality and increasing prevalence. Objective. The aims of this paper were to systematically review the literature on the antibacterial treatment of aspiration pneumonia in elderly patients and identify the microbiology of aspiration pneumonia. Materials and methods.
