[Specific approach to prevention and treatment of acute pneumonia in alcoholics].

Updated diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to acute pneumonia in chronic alcoholics suffering from alcoholic delirium resulted in lowering of acute pneumonia lethality in specialized medical clinics for alcoholics and drug addicts.

[Acute pneumonia in alcoholics: onset and course].

As indicated by the data on acute pneumonia (AP) analyzed from the case histories of chronic alcoholics who had died in the hospital for addicts, AP in alcoholics runs with scare symptoms in the absence of physical manifestations and takes a severe course. The authors provide recommendations on AP diagnosis and treatment in chronic alcoholics.