Early Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Severe Stroke: Clinical Features and the Diagnostic Role of C-Reactive Protein.

<h4>Background</h4>Accurate diagnosis of pneumonia complicating severe stroke is challenging due to difficulties in physical examination, altered immune responses and delayed manifestations of radiological changes. The aims of this study were to describe early clinical features and to ex...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Anushka Warusevitane, Dumin Karunatilake, Julius Sim, Craig Smith, Christine Roffe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0150269&type=printable