Active clinical trials for "Pneumonia"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the added diagnostic value of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction targeting the lytA gene in detecting pneumococci in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

To identify the potential serum biomarkers with regard to the severity of pneumonia, and to further evaluate the prognostic value of these markers.

Diagnosis of pneumonia remains difficult in intensive care unit (ICU), notably after cardiac surgery. Lung ultrasonography (LUS) has been successfully used for diagnosis of pneumonia, but its usefulness and reliability was never evaluated after cardiac surgery. This study investigates the clinical relevance of LUS for pneumonia diagnoses in cardiac ICU.

The ULTRACHEST study will be a prospective clinical diagnostic performance study with primary objective to establish device diagnostic clinical performance of Ultra Low Dose CT (ULD-CT) in order to prove it is more accurate in detecting pneumonia when comparing to standard conventional chest radiography.

The International study on NoSocomial Pneumonia in Intensive CaRE (PneumoINSPIRE) is a prospective, international, multicentre, observational, cohort study. The study aims to provide up-to-date and generalisable information on current worldwide epidemiology and clinical practice associated with diagnosis and management of nosocomial pneumonia in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. PneumoINSPIRE study is endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).

Study to assess the risk of incident heart failure associated with the use of pramipexole compared with other dopamine agonists and additionally, to assess the risk of incident heart failure associated with the use of dopamine agonists in comparison with no use of dopamine agonist therapy

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of procalcitonin test for differentiation of the cause of pneumonia in patients with cancer.

Participants who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled and then having a daily follow up for maximum of 13 days' hospitalization. Next follow up will be taken time at day 14th after hospitalization date, either on ward or policlinic. The participations will be ended by day 30th after hospitalization date when the called follow up is done by investigator.

Given the need for a more sensitive pathogen detection test in patients with immunocompromised pneumonia, this study will evaluate the performance of the Karius Test, a novel NGS blood test for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. We will compare the performance of the Karius Test to the results of microbiologic tests obtained as part of usual care for immunocompromised patients undergoing evaluation for suspected pneumonia.

SARS-COV 2 infection might be responsible for sever pneumonia. Obesity seems to be a risk factor for severe SARS-COV 2 pneumonia. Lipid metabolism alteration are described with both obesity and sepsis. The aim of the present study was to describe association between lipid metabolism, obesity, sepsis inflammation and clinical outcome in COVID-19 patient with severe pneumonia compared with severe pneumonia caused by other pathogenes.