The strange case of community-acquired pneumonia in COPD

Chest. 2011 Mar;139(3):483-485. doi: 10.1378/chest.10-2227.

Authors

Antoni Torres¹, Santiago Ewig²

Affiliations

¹ Pneumology Department, Clinic Institute of Thorax, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona-Insitut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: atorres@ub.edu.
² Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Kliniken für Pneumologie und Infektiologie, Herne und Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

PMID: 21362647
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2227

No abstract available

Publication types

Comment
Editorial

MeSH terms

Administration, Inhalation
Community-Acquired Infections / chemically induced
Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology*
Humans
Pneumonia / chemically induced
Pneumonia / epidemiology*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / drug therapy
Risk Factors
Steroids / administration & dosage
Steroids / adverse effects
Steroids / therapeutic use

Substances

Steroids