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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 105-111 |
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity is associated with severe pneumonia
Jung Seop Eom1, Won Jun Song2, Hongseok Yoo2, Byeong-Ho Jeong3, Ho Yun Lee2, Won-Jung Koh2, Kyeongman Jeon2, Hye Yun Park2
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan; Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
3 Department of Radiology, Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence Address:
Hye Yun Park
Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul-135-710
Korea
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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.151441
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CONTEXT: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous disorder, and various aspects of COPD may be associated with the severity of pneumonia in such patients.
AIMS: We examined the risk factors associated with severe pneumonia in a COPD population.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective observational study using a prospectively collected database of pneumonia patients who were admitted to our hospital through emergency department between 2008 and 2012. Patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia and those with an immunocompromised status were excluded.
RESULTS: Of 148 pneumonia patients with COPD for whom chest computed tomography (CT) scans were available, 106 (71.6%) and 42 (28.4%) were classified as non-severe and severe pneumonia, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the severity of airflow limitation [odds ratio (OR), 2.751; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.074-7.050; P = 0.035] and the presence of emphysema on a chest CT scan (OR, 3.366; 95% CI, 1.104-10.265; P = 0.033) were independently associated with severe pneumonia in patients with COPD.
CONCLUSIONS: The severity of COPD including the airflow limitation grade and the presence of pulmonary emphysema were independently associated with the development of severe pneumonia. |
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