Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in intensive care units: a multicenter study by ESGCIP and EFISG

• Published in: Critical care (London, England) Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 1 - 323
• Main Authors: Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto, Dettori, Silvia, Di Pilato, Vincenzo, Asperges, Erika, Ball, Lorenzo, Berti, Enora, Blennow, Ola, Bruzzone, Bianca, Calvet, Laure, Capra Marzani, Federico, Casabella, Antonio, Choudaly, Sofia, Dartevel, Anais, De Pascale, Gennaro, Di Meco, Gabriele, Fallon, Melissa, Galerneau, Louis-Marie, Gallego, Miguel, Giacomini, Mauro, González Sáez, Adolfo, Hänsel, Luise, Icardi, Giancarlo, Koehler, Philipp, Lagrou, Katrien, Lahmer, Tobias, Lewis White, P., Magnasco, Laura, Marchese, Anna, Marelli, Cristina, Marín-Arriaza, Mercedes, Martin-Loeches, Ignacio, Mekontso-Dessap, Armand, Mikulska, Malgorzata, Mularoni, Alessandra, Nordlander, Anna, Poissy, Julien, Russelli, Giovanna, Signori, Alessio, Tascini, Carlo, Vaconsin, Louis-Maxime, Vargas, Joel, Vena, Antonio, Wauters, Joost, Pelosi, Paolo, Timsit, Jean-Francois, Bassetti, Matteo, Cerchiaro, Matteo, Zaccarelli, Mario, Robba, Chiara, Battaglini, Denise, Brunetti, Iole, Del Puente, Filippo, Mora, Sara, de la Villa, Sofía, Valerio, Maricela, Muñoz, Patricia, Lombardi, Gianmarco, Cesarano, Melania, Gennenzi, Veronica, Meersseman, Philippe, Hermans, Greet, Wilmer, Alexander, Razazi, Keyvan, Carteaux, Guillaume, de Prost, Nicolas, Cornely, Oliver A., Seidel, Danila, Alastruey-Izquierdo, Ana, Garcia Borrega, Jorge, Bonnal, Christine, de Montmollin, Etienne, Dessajan, Julien, Ceresini, Mariaelena, Mojoli, Francesco, Vola, Ambra, Garnaud, Cécile, Díaz, Emili, Gasch, Oriol, Prina, Elena, Rasch, Sebastian, Dibos, Miriam, Haschka, Stefanie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BioMed Central Ltd 24.08.2023; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Biomarker; Care and treatment; Case reports; Critical care; Demographic aspects; Diagnosis; Hematology; HIV; Hospital patients; Human immunodeficiency virus; ICU; Infections; Inflammatory diseases; Intensive care; Intensive care units; Life Sciences; Medical diagnosis; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Mortality; Patients; PCR; Pneumocystis; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; Pneumonia; Polymerase chain reaction; Regression analysis; Services; United States; Italy

Abstract Background Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is an opportunistic, life-threatening disease commonly affecting immunocompromised patients. The distribution of predisposing diseases or conditions in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and subjected to diagnostic...