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The available evidence for non-ICU CAP and AECOPD supports a short-course treatment duration of 5 days in patients who have clinically improved. Efforts of the scientific community should be directed at implementing this evidence in daily practice. High-quality RCTs are needed to underpin even shorter treatment durations for CAP and AECOPD, to establish the optimal treatment duration of HAP and acute sinusitis, and to evaluate shorter duration using an optimal penicillin dosing schedule in patients with pharyngotonsillitis.

"Seladelpar improves markers of disease activity and reduces pruritus in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who have an incomplete response or intolerance to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), suggest findings from the phase 3 RESPONSE trial." Read the news article from our program 'Improving PBC outcomes by prioritising patient needs at https://lnkd.in/dx2wBivn --- This program is made possible thanks to an independent educational grant from Ipsen. #PBC #rarediseases #PBCawareness #PBCtherapy #independentmedicaleducation #ime #continuingmedicaleducation #cme #healthcareeducation #SpringerIME

New research found that arthritis drugs have the potential to halt lingering lung problems that can last months or years after COVID-19 infections. #worldhealth #publichealth #globalhealth #covid19 #longcovid #regenerativemedicine #medicine #clinicalresearch #medicalsciences #health https://lnkd.in/gz-Sxhb8

Dr. Janakiram Bobbillapati provides an overview of how stool routine tests evaluate physical attributes and identify gastrointestinal bleeding, malabsorption or parasites. Read Article: https://shorturl.at/EGXwP #TRUSTlabDiagnostics #bloodtest #Diagnostics #Healthcheckup

It will be interesting to see if this becomes widely utilized and, if so, helpful or just another nonspecific lab that gets ordered on everyone with lactate, ESR, CRP, and procalcitonin. Im afraid that a 3 physician consensus adjudicating the diagnosis of sepsis could have skewed this entire study severely depending on who they were, how they define sepsis and sepsis related organ dysfunction, etc. https://lnkd.in/eHDwkPjj

Interesting study in Journal of Clinical Investigation: Lung microvascular occlusion by platelet-rich neutrophil-platelet aggregates promotes cigarette smoke–induced severe flu https://lnkd.in/daQmSf9Z Cigarette smoking is associated with a higher risk of ICU admissions among patients with flu. However, the etiological mechanism by which cigarette smoke (CS) exacerbates flu remains poorly understood. Here, we show that a mild dose of influenza A virus promotes a severe lung injury in mice preexposed to CS but not room air for 4 weeks. Real-time intravital (in vivo) lung imaging revealed that the development of acute severe respiratory dysfunction in CS- and flu-exposed mice was associated with the accumulation of platelet-rich neutrophil-platelet aggregates (NPAs) in the lung microcirculation within 2 days following flu infection. These platelet-rich NPAs formed in situ and grew larger over time to occlude the lung microvasculature, leading to the development of pulmonary ischemia followed by the infiltration of NPAs and vascular leakage into the alveolar air space. These findings suggest, for the first time to our knowledge, that an acute onset of platelet-driven thrombo-inflammatory response in the lung contributes to the development of CS-induced severe flu.

Time is ... liver, kidney and life ! As for may diseases with a potential complicated course, associated with significant morbidity and mortality, early diagnostic and therapeutic approach is key in ascites, to detect spontaneous bacterial and implement measures to prevent acute kidney injury. With the usual methodological limitations of such a meta-analysis, these data are convincing enough to encourage early paracentesis in all patients with acute ascitic decompensation. 

📉 New JAMA Network Health Systems & Recruitment Open study highlights a growing concern: empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics are increasingly used for suspected community-onset sepsis. This trend raises questions about the balance between early treatment and antimicrobial stewardship. 🔎 Read the study and its implications for improving patient care. Innovative diagnostic tools can improve patient outcomes and help preserve antibiotics. https://lnkd.in/eEzfET-h #AntimicrobialStewardship #Sepsis #PublicHealth

ASCP Daily Diagnosis 03/19 CST Treatment failure in children receiving amoxicillin for acute otitis media is uncommon and does not differ by causative pathogen or β-lactamase production, according to study results. These data suggest that given the low treatment failure rate of amoxicillin in clinical practice, there may not be substantial benefit to using broader spectrum antibiotics that are not inactivated by beta-lactamases, such as amoxicillin-clavulanate or cephalosporins. https://lnkd.in/gbZhtkCH

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