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Risk factors and management of pulmonary infection in elderly patients with heart failure: A retrospective analysis.
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- Construction of a prediction model for pulmonary infection and its risk factors in Intensive Care Unit patients.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2024Article
- Viral coinfection in hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Brazil: a retrospective cohort study.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- Efficacy of Sacubitril Valsartan sodium tablets in patients with heart failure combined with pulmonary infection and long-term recurrence rate.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
- Diagnostic value of echocardiography combined with serum C-reactive protein level in chronic heart failure.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2023Article
- Comparison of quality/quantity mNGS and usual mNGS for pathogen detection in suspected pulmonary infections.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
abstractPulmonary infection is common in patients with heart failure, yet the risk factors remain unclear. We aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics and risk factors of pulmonary infection in elderly patients with heart failure, to provide reference to the prevention of pulmonary infection.This study was a retrospective study design. We included elderly heart failure patient admitted to our hospital from April 1, 2018 to August 31, 2020. The characteristics and clinical data of pulmonary infection and no infection patients were assessed. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to identify the risk factors of pulmonary infections in patients with heart failure.A total of 201 patients were included. The incidence of pulmonary infection in patients with heart failure was 23.88%. There were significant differences in the age, diabetes, New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), C-reactive protein (CRP) between infection and no infection group (all P < .05), and there were not differences in the sex, body mass index, alcohol drinking, smoking, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, length of hospital stay between 2 groups (all P > .05). Logistic regression analyses indicated that age ≥70 years, diabetes, NYHA grade III, LVEF ≤55%, and CRP ≥10 mg/L were the independent risk factors of pulmonary infections in patients with heart failure (all P < .05). Pseudomonas aeruginosa (34.48%), Staphylococcus aureus (19.57%), and Klebsiella pneumoniae (15.22%) were the most common 3 pathogens in patients with pulmonary infection.Heart failure patients with age ≥70 years, diabetes, NYHA grade III, LVEF ≤55%, and CRP ≥10 mg/L have higher risks of pulmonary infections, preventive measures targeted on those risk factors are needed to reduce pulmonary infections.
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