Levetiracetam is widely regarded as a benign antiepileptic drug, compared to older antiepileptic medication. We report a case of eosinophilic pneumonia due to levetiracetam use in a non-smoking woman ...
fDepartment of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA gInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA Severe ...
Val Kilmer’s death on Tuesday has sparked reminders of the risks of pneumonia. The actor, best known for his role as Iceman in "Top Gun" — along with "Batman Forever," "The Doors" and many other ...
Introduction: Viral infections can cause pneumonia, which is difficult to diagnose using chest X-rays due to its similarities with other respiratory conditions. Current pneumonia diagnosis techniques ...
Antibiotics were initiated for 99.3% of patients with positive chest radiograph (CR) and 68.7% with negative CR. Juliette Pinot, M.D., from the Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord ...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Many general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) even when chest radiograph (CR) results are negative, ...
1. In this retrospective cohort study, discordance between initial diagnosis and discharge diagnosis occurred in over half of hospitalizations for community-acquired pneumonia from the emergency ...
Procalcitonin can be useful for point-of-care testing in patients with influenza-like illness and a prolonged fever, guiding the indication for a chest radiograph while helping to avoid radiation ...
Abstract: Pneumonia is a life-threatening respiratory disease caused by bacterial infection. The goal of this study is to develop an algorithm using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect ...
From the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa (G.A.W.), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (V.F.C.-M., G.A.W.), and Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre ...
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia, or BOOP, is an inflammatory lung disease affecting the bronchioles and alveoli. BOOP is most commonly seen in people between 40 and 60; however, it can ...
This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...