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The prognosis of acute respiratory failure in critically ill cancer patients.
Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2004
From Medical Intensive Care Unit, Biostatistics Department, Respiratory Department, Department of Pathology, Saint-Louis Hospital and Paris 7 University. Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
Acute respiratory failure (ARF) in patients with cancer is frequently a fatal event. To identify factors associated with survival of cancer patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for ARF, we conducted a prospective 5-year observational study in a medical ICU in a teaching hospital in Paris, France. The patients were 203 cancer patients with ARF mainly due to infectious pneumonia (58%), but also noninfectious pneumonia (9%), congestive heart failure (12%), and no identifiable cause (21%).
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