Non-ventilator-associated ICU-acquired pneumonia (NV-ICU-AP) in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD: From the French OUTCOMEREA cohort.

Background: Non-ventilator-associated ICU-acquired pneumonia (NV-ICU-AP), a nosocomial pneumonia that is not related to invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), has been less studied than ventilator-associated pneumonia, and never in the context of patients in an ICU for severe acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), a common cause of ICU admission. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with NV-ICU-AP occurrence and assess the association between NV-ICU-AP and the outcomes of these patients.

Methods: Data were extracted from the French ICU database, OutcomeRea™.

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

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 work-up for PJP has seldom been explored.

Materials And Methods: The primary objective of the study was to describe the characteristics of ICU patients subjected to diagnostic workup for PJP.

Fatal HSV-2 primary infection most likely acquired by kidney transplantation: A case report.

Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) rarely causes severe disease, even in solid organ transplant recipients. This paper describes a fatal case of HSV-2 infection, probably transmitted from a donor to a kidney transplant recipient. The donor was seropositive for HSV-2 but not for HSV-1, whereas the recipient was seronegative for both viruses before transplantation, suggesting that the graft was the source of infection.

Levamisole-induced vasculopathy: A systematic review.

Objective: To characterize levamisole-induced vasculopathy.

Methods: We performed a systematic review searching MEDLINE for articles published from 1972 to 2016.

Results: We retrieved 357 references and abstracts and selected 111 articles.

Hepatitis E and neuralgic amyotrophy: Five cases and review of literature.

Hepatitis E virus infection - mainly genotype 3 - is increasingly common in industrialized countries. Infection is usually asymptomatic, but cases of central or peripheral neurological symptoms with hepatitis E have been described. The most frequent is Guillain-Barre but somes cases of neuralgic amyotrophy have been described.