Pneumonia News

Fewer patients with community-acquired pneumonia using corticosteroids vs. standard care needed mechanical ventilation, but mortality rates did not differ between both groups, according to study results published in CHEST.

A long-acting muscarinic antagonist plus long-acting beta agonist (LABA) was linked to fewer COPD exacerbations and pneumonia hospitalizations vs. an inhaled corticosteroid and LABA, according to results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The FDA has approved IV sulbactam-durlobactam to treat hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia caused by susceptible strains of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex.

The FDA on Wednesday approved the world’s first vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, which followed years of failed attempts by scientists to develop one.

A nurse-created algorithm helped determine which patients with multiple myeloma exhibited the highest risk for pneumonia, according to study results.

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearances to seven triage and notification findings of varying conditions on chest X-ray and head CT images, according to a manufacturer-issued press release.

A machine-learning model showed excellent discriminative ability in predicting 30-day mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, according to study results published in CHEST.

People with severe community-acquired pneumonia who were treated with hydrocortisone had a lower risk for death 28 days after diagnosis compared with those who received placebo, a phase 3 trial found.

The real-world use of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia prophylaxis in patients with systemic lupus erythematous is “much lower” than prior survey-based studies suggest, according to data published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

The lack of an established tool to predict disease severity among children with pneumonia may lead to ineffective management decisions, according to a press release from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.