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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Comparison of the Clinico-Microbiological Characteristics of Culture-Positive and Culture-Negative Septic Pulmonary Embolism: A 10-Year Retrospective Study.

Yoshito Nishimura, Hideharu Hagiya, Mikako Obika, Fumio Otsuka

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoshito NishimuraDepartment of General Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 7008558, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0224-7501
Hideharu HagiyaDepartment of General Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 7008558, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5086-1891
Mikako ObikaDepartment of General Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 7008558, Japan.
Fumio OtsukaDepartment of General Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 7008558, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7014-9095
Okayama University Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Septic pulmonary embolism (SPE) is a rare yet serious infectious disorder with nonspecific clinical findings due to microorganism-containing emboli disseminating from extrapulmonary infectious foci. It is unknown whether a positive blood culture correlates with a worse clinical outcome. We compared the clinical and microbiologic characteristics of patients with SPE divided into the culture-positive group and the culture-negative one. This study was a retrospective observational study of the patients diagnosed with SPE and treated in an academic hospital from April 2010 to May 2020. We identified six culture-positive and four culture-negative patients with SPE during the study period. The culture-positive group had significantly longer periods of hospitalization (median: 75 days, range: 45-125 days) than the culture-negative group (median: 14.5 days, range: 3-43 days) (

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PMID33260940
PMCPMC7759841
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