"Difficult" pneumonia

309 Difficult-to-treat Asthma with Idiopathic Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia

309 Difficult-to-treat Asthma with Idiopathic Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia Norbert Pauk, PhD, MD. Department of Pneumology, Faculty Hospital Na Bulovce, 3rd Faculty of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Background: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (ICEP) is a rare disorder of unknown cause characterised by subacute or chronic respiratory and general symptoms, alveolar and /o...

difficult-to-treat, life-threatening cytomegalovirus pneumonia in a patient with chronic renal disease

Management of the difficult Airway

The appropriate airway management is the important point during the anesthesia. For it dose, ‎taking history, physical examination (head and neck, mandible, mouth opening, neck ‎movements …) must be done completely and they are helpful in estimating difficult ‎intubation.‎ It is necessary to note that one case from every ‎‏5000‏‎ cases of anesthesia, not o...

Empirical treatment of nonsevere community-acquired pneumonia: still a difficult issue.

erythromycin resistance (<5%) in Europe are reported from Switzerland, Germany and the UK. In 1979, Spain had <1% of resistance to erythromycin but this progressively increased to 15–17% in 1994. Other European countries, such as France, Belgium or Hungary, have exceeded 25% resistance rates [6, 12]. In most countries, an association between the local prevalence of pneumococcal resistance to pe...

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain