Necrotizing pneumonia: A rare complication of pneumonia requiring special consideration

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Tsai, Yueh Feng ^a   Ku, Yee Huang ^b  

^a St Martin de Porres Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

bronchopulmonary fistula; lung resection; necrotizing pneumonia; pneumonia; pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CELL; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPNEA; EMPYEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG RESECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROORGANISM; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PERSISTENT AIR LEAK; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURVIVAL; THORAX PAIN; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUBE; VENTILATOR DEPENDENCY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOCIDINS; NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84859214550     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e3283521022     Document Type: Review

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