Pneumonia News

Children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia from households with two or more smokers appeared to have a longer length of stay than children from households with no smokers, according to study results.

Despite receiving appropriate initial antibiotic therapy, pneumonia patients with two or more risk factors had greater 30-day mortality than those with fewer risk factors, suggesting the need for adjunctive therapy other than antibiotics for those at greater risk, according to research published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The incidence of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization is highest among adults aged 65 years and older, according to study results.

Aspiration pneumonia is associated with a higher in-hospital mortality rate than community-acquired pneumonia in patients with COPD, according to study results.

Patients with COPD who discontinued using inhaled corticosteroids experienced a more than 25% decrease in the rate of serious pneumonia, according to study results.

DENVER — Inhaled corticosteroids put patients with COPD at an increased risk for incident pneumonia, however there appears to be a counterbalancing beneficial effect on pneumonia-associated mortality, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Healio.com/Pulmonology will present live coverage from the American Thoracic Society International Conference that runs May 15-20 in Denver.

Patients with community-acquired pneumonia had similar outcomes when randomized to one of three antibiotic treatment therapies, with regard to 90-day mortality, according to a recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

A novel electronic tool designed to aid pneumonia diagnosis and treatment may reduce mortality resulting from community-acquired cases of the disease, according to recent data.

Children diagnosed with pneumonia in the first 3 years of life may face a greater risk for asthma and impaired lung function, including COPD, in adulthood, according to study results.