Accuracy of serum LDH elevation for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue APRIL, 2011, Pages

  Vogel, Monika N ^a,b   Weissgerber, Patrick ^a   Goeppert, Benjamin ^b   Hetzel, Jürgen ^a   Vatlach, Mignon ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Horgera, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Immunodeficiency; Immunosuppression; Lactate dehydrognase; Pneumonia; Serum test

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; GERMANY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955809452     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13184     Document Type: Article

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