Physicians need to observe a high sense of care and caution while dealing with their COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients, according to Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins.
This finding serves as a reminder to physicians treating COPD patients so that timely and required steps can be taken to avoid pneumonia, which doubles their risk [...]
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Medical practitioners treating patients suffering from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) need to observe a high sense of caution, as per Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins.
COPD affects approximately 11 million Americans and a majority of the disease victims belong to the category of past or present-day smokers.
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Despite the increased pneumonia risk, the team [...]
February 15, 2010 | Posted in
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Patients suffering from pneumonia can expect to get relief and lead a better life when corticosteroids are added to the traditional antimicrobial therapy, as per scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Researchers at the UT Southwestern in a study available online showed that mice infected with a type of severe bacterial pneumonia and administered with [...]
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Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins have requested members of the medical fraternity to be more careful and cautious while administering or prescribing inhaled corticosteroids to patients with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
This advice came after it was found that some of the widely used anti-inflammatory medications for COPD tend to raise the risk of [...]
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According to scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, patients suffering from pneumonia can recover more quickly when corticosteroids are added to traditional antimicrobial therapy.
Corticosteroids are primarily used for treating inflammation related to infectious diseases unlike anabolic steroids that are used for bulking up the body muscles.
In a study available online, researchers at UT Southwestern [...]
September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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According to scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, addition of corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy help patients recover from pneumonia faster than with antibiotics in isolation.
Pneumonia is a lung infection that is primarily characterized by breathing ailments and is spread by sneezing and coughing.
Dr. Robert Hardy, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics [...]
August 14, 2009 | Posted in
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Pneumonia is a lung infection characterized by difficulties in breathing, and usually spread through coughing and sneezing. Symptoms of pneumonia include headache, fever, chills, coughs, chest pain, nausea and sore throat. There are several types of pneumonia which can be caused by bacteria, virus and even fungi. Pneumonia caused by mycoplasma bacterium is generally a [...]
July 26, 2009 | Posted in
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A recent analysis of a major trial highlighted the risk in COPD patients citing a link between increased risks of pneumonia and inhaled steroid therapy.
According to the first detailed analysis of safety data obtained from the influential TORCH study, there is a risk of pneumonia with inhaled steroid therapy by as much as 50 percent. [...]
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