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Filter by:Immune checkpoint inhibitor associated pneumonia (CIP) is a common immune related adverse reaction, accounting for 35% of all deaths. However, due to the lack of typical clinical symptoms and imaging manifestations, CIP needs to be differentiated from other diseases such as pulmonary infections and lung cancer progression. Currently, there is a lack of diagnostic gold standards, which belongs to exclusive diagnosis. Empirical diagnosis and treatment in clinical practice can easily lead to the abuse of hormones and antibiotics, and even misdiagnosis and mistreatment, resulting in patient death. Therefore, early identification of CIP and pulmonary infection is the key to successful diagnosis and treatment. The CIP diagnosis and treatment guidelines recommend performing bronchoalveolar lavage as appropriate, but there is still a lack of large-scale prospective clinical studies. The beneficial pathogen metagenomic sequencing technology for the diagnosis of pulmonary infections has not been mentioned. Our research group conducted a prospective clinical study for the first time to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of bronchoalveolar lavage combined with pathogen metagenomic sequencing technology in diagnosing CIP, explore biomarkers for diagnosing CIP, in order to improve the early diagnosis rate and treatment efficiency of CIP, and reduce the abuse of antibiotics and hormones.
This is an observational, prospective, multicenter study conducted in the US to gather evidence in the context of lung cancer to complement the development of a digital solution. Patients initiating treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will be prospectively followed to characterize risk factors, signs, and symptoms leading to onset, diagnosis, and treatment of pneumonitis/ILD should it occur.
The Pneumonia Direct Pilot study is designed to assess whether combining molecular diagnostics for bacteria and AMR markers with host-response profiling improves agreement and predictive value for the diagnosis of VAP versus an adjudicated clinical reference standard. The feasibility design is intended to inform future interventional studies that will investigate the clinical impact of combined pathogen- and host-directed testing approaches.
This is a multicenter, prospective randomized controlled trial. At least 2 but no more than 5 centers are expected to participate in the study. The primary objective is to test the hypothesis that the addition of high-dose inhaled nitric oxide therapy to standard treatment has a positive effect on the clinical course of pneumonia and the structure and function of cardiopulmonary system. Number of participants: 200, including the subproject NO-PNEUMONIA-CAP - 100 CAP participants, the subproject NO-PNEUMONIA-NP - 100 NP participants. Number of groups: 4 Inhalation of iNO at a dose of 200 ppm for 30 minutes under the control of methemoglobin level (no more than 5%) three times a day if the patient is allocated to the main group. The general course of iNO therapy will last until the pneumonia resolves, but no more than 7 days. Recording of vital signs and safety assessment will be carried out immediately before the initiation of NO therapy and every 15 minutes after its start (pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, SpO2, temperature, MetHb level).
The primary objective of the study is to show that in Chinese adults with CABP, a course of IV/PO treatment with omadacycline has similar clinical efficacy as the with the comparator antibiotic, IV/PO moxifloxacin. The study is designed as a bridging study, to confirm the results of the pivotal global CABP trial in an ethnically different population of Chinese.
This study aims to observe the effectiveness of clinical application in guiding anti-infection treatments in AIDS patients with severe pneumonia and/or sepsis using Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing-based technology in the real world
Observing the Real-World Application Effectiveness of Cytokine Immune Adsorption Technology in AIDS Patients with Severe Pneumonia or septic shock.
Screening for risk factors related to lung function impairment in patients who have recovered from AIDS with severe pneumonia, to provide clinical evidence for early identification and intervention of lung function damage in this population.
Almost 90 out of 100 people carry herpes simplex viruses (HSV). Once a person has been infected with the herpes viruses, he or she can't get rid of them for the rest of her/his life. For the most part, the viruses are in a dormant state. Only when the immune system is weakened, for example in the case of a serious illness or stress, are the viruses reactivated. They then mainly cause cold sores, which are harmless for healthy people and usually heal without therapy. However, especially in people with a weakened immune system, HSV can also cause serious infections, such as meningitis. In almost every second mechanically ventilated patient in intensive care who has pneumonia, HSV can be detected in the respiratory tract. This is caused by reactivation of the viruses as a result of the severe underlying disease and stress during intensive care therapy. Whether treatment of the herpes viruses (e.g. with acyclovir) is necessary in this situation and helps the patients to cure has not been clarified, especially as acyclovir can also cause side effects such as a deterioration in kidney function. Currently, the physicians decide to treat the herpes viruses in about half of the patients. Several studies have shown that patients for whom the physician decided to treat the viruses survived more often. However, all of these studies looked at the course of the disease only retrospectively and thus are subject to many biases (including physician selection of who receives treatment, missing data). A definitive conclusion as to whether herpesvirus therapy can be recommended cannot be drawn without doubt from these studies. Therefore, the investigators would like to investigate in a randomized controlled trial, i.e. patients are randomly assigned to the experimental (therapy of herpesviruses) or control group (no therapy of herpesviruses), the effect of therapy with acyclovir on survival in mechanically ventilated intensive care patients with lower respiratory tract infection (pneumonia) in whom a large amount of HSV was found in the respiratory tract. The goal of the study is to provide clarity on whether therapy will help patients recover.
Children are commonly hospitalized because of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). There are multiple high-quality randomized trials of short-course antibiotic therapy (3-5 days of treatment) for adults hospitalized with CAP - but there is very little evidence in children. We intend to do a pilot RCT of short-course (3-5 days) vs standard-duration (8-10 days) antibiotic therapy for children hospitalized for CAP.