[Community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly].

Praxis (Bern 1994)

1 Spital Münsingen - Insel Gruppe.

Published: April 2016

We report the case of a 88 years old patient with cough and new onset confusion. Delirium was caused by a necrotizing Methicillin-sensible staphylococcus aureus pneumonia with bacteremia. Despite antibiotic therapy for several weeks and fall of inflammatory markers the patient died from consequences of delirium.

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