Pneumonia in patients with cirrhosis: risk factors associated with mortality and predictive value of prognostic models

Pneumonia in patients with cirrhosis: risk factors associated with mortality and predictive value of prognostic models

Abstract Background Cirrhosis always goes with profound immunity compromise, and makes those patients easily be the target of pneumonia. Cirrhotic patients with pneumonia have a dramatically increased mortality. To recognize the risk factors of mortality and to optimize stratification are critical f...

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Main Authors: Lichen Xu, Shuangwei Ying, Jianhua Hu, Yunyun Wang, Meifang Yang, Tiantian Ge, Chunhong Huang, Qiaomai Xu, Haihong Zhu, Zhi Chen, Weihang Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Respiratory Research
Subjects:
Pneumonia
Cirrhosis
Risk factors
Outcome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-018-0934-5

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