Clinical and Imaging Characteristics of Primary Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae.

Background: To investigate the CT imaging features and microbial phenotypes of primary severe community-acquired pneumonia caused by hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp).

Methods: Patients diagnosed with primary hvKp pneumonia were included, and their clinical data were analyzed, including the baseline characteristics and CT imaging results. After hypermucoviscosity phenotyping, the strains, serological types, and virulence genes of hvKp were identified using multiplex PCR.

Impact of diabetes mellitus on the prognostic value of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in renal cell carcinoma.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR)-based prediction of the prognosis of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The data of 662 patients who had undergone nephrectomy for RCC between January 2004 and July 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. X-tile analysis was used to determine the optimal cutoff value for the NLR.