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Vol. 215. Issue 8.
Pages 458-467 (November 2015)
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Vol. 215. Issue 8.
Pages 458-467 (November 2015)
Review
Community-acquired pneumonia
Neumonía adquirida en la comunidad
M. Falguera
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falguera@medicina.udl.cat

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, M.F. Ramírez
Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain
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Table 1. Microorganisms responsible for community-acquired pneumonia and their correlation with specific clinical and epidemiological characteristics.
Table 2. Potential usefulness of various plasma biomarkers in managing patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
Table 3. Etiology and recommended empiric treatment according to the various patient subgroups.
Table 4. Targeted treatment depending on the microorganism isolated.
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Abstract

This article not only reviews the essential aspects of community-acquired pneumonia for daily clinical practice, but also highlights the controversial issues and provides the newest available information. Community-acquired pneumonia is considered in a broad sense, without excluding certain variants that, in recent years, a number of authors have managed to delineate, such as healthcare-associated pneumonia. The latter form is nothing more than the same disease that affects more frail patients, with a greater number of risk factors, both sharing an overall common approach.

Keywords:
Community-acquired pneumonia
Risk factors
Epidemiology
Clinical manifestations
Diagnosis
Biomarkers
Prognosis
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El presente artículo no revisa únicamente aquellos aspectos de la neumonía adquirida en la comunidad fundamentales para la práctica clínica diaria, sino que incide en los temas polémicos, y aporta la información más novedosa disponible. Se considera la neumonía adquirida en la comunidad en un sentido amplio, sin excluir ciertas variantes que, durante los últimos años, algunos autores han llegado a deslindar, como la neumonía asociada a cuidados sanitarios. Esta última no es más que la misma enfermedad que incide en pacientes más frágiles, con un mayor número de factores de riesgo, compartiendo ambas un planteamiento global común.

Palabras clave:
Neumonía adquirida en la comunidad
Factores de riesgo
Epidemiología
Manifestaciones clínicas
Diagnóstico
Biomarcadores
Pronóstico

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