Active clinical trials for "Pneumonia"

The study aims to explore risk factors for poor prognosis among patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). During a 5-year study period, all patients (aged ≥ 18 years) admitted with CAP at North Zealand Hospital will be invited for inclusion. Questionnaires, anthropometric measures, laboratory tests, and biomaterials will be collected at admission, daily during admission, at discharge and at follow-up. The main clinical outcomes of the study consist of deaths and development of diabetes.

In this study, a new, non-invasive method for diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis (PA) will be tested in a clinical pilot project.

HVAPNOR consists of Three work packages: Prospective observational study of Hospital (HAP) - and ventilator-Associated pneumonia (VAP) at 5 hospitals in Norway. Establish optimized routines for microbiological sampling, diagnostics and antibiotic stewardship.. Biomarker studies in HAP and VAP. Studies on capacity building in HAP and VAP diagnostics.

The main goal of this prospective non-interventional exploratory monocentric study is to characterize the immune cell composition of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from cancer patients experiencing cancer therapy-induced pneumonitis on a single-cell scale. These mechanistic insights can directly lead to putative diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets. A second highly clinically relevant hypothesis is that single-cell profiling of blood samples will reveal circulating biomarkers of ICB toxicity, making non-invasive diagnosis feasible.

The research will be retrospective, and will include all patients who were admitted during 2020 and 2021 in the COVID-19 ICU of University Hospital Center Osijek due to pneumonia caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The association of chest x-ray infiltrate evolution with changes in laboratory inflammatory parameters and respiratory function parameters will be examined.

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a multi-resistant Gram-negative bacillus and is an opportunistic pathogen. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections are associated with a significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in immunocompromised patients. The mortality of infections (bacteremia, pneumonia) related to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is variable and is estimated between 21 and 69%. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia pneumopathies have been mainly described in patients hospitalized in intensive care and benefiting from mechanical ventilation. The existence of immunosuppression seems to be a risk factor for the transition from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia pulmonary colonization to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia pulmonary infection. The reference treatment for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia-associated pneumonia is the combination of trimethoprim and sulfamthoxazole, a molecule that lung transplant patients routinely receive as a preventive treatment for Pneumocysitis jirovecii infection. There is no consensus on the value of routine dual-antibiotic therapy, and it varies from one center to another and from one country to another. The main objective is to compare the clinical-microbiological evolution of lung transplant patients treated for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia pneumopathy according to the prescription of a mono- or bi-antibiotherapy. The secondary objective is to evaluate the resistance rate of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains isolated from respiratory samples according to the anti-pneumocystis prophylactic molecule received by the patient.

Patients with severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) pneumonia depending on mechanical ventilation are at risk of superinfections, especially infections of respiratory tract. This multicententer prospective observational study is focused on early diagnosis of respiratory tract superinfections and identification of risk factors (immunosuppressive therapy,...). Investigators will use bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) detection of pathogens and antigenic detection of mycoses. This project can support the routine use of BALF and PCR diagnostics for early detection of pathogens. Data will be compared with historical cohort of patients without routine BAL.

This study pretends to evaluate the potential use of Hyfe Cough Tracker (Hyfe) to screen for, diagnose, and support the clinical management of patients with respiratory diseases, while enriching a dataset of disease-specific annotated coughs, for further refinement of similar systems.

This is an epidemiology study for the prevalence and serotypes of pneumococcus pneumoniae in hospitalized patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP). The serotypes of the pneumococcus pneumoniae will be determined by a urinary antigen assay. This is a single center, non-interventional observatory study.

The etiology of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP)was not clear, but previous studies have shown that in some patients, some pathogen could be detected in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), and may be one of the causes of COP. This study aimed to screen the pathogenic microorganisms in BALF and lung puncture fluid of the patients with COP through the next-generation sequencing to further clarify the correlation between the incidence of COP and pathogenic microorganisms.