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Cardiac Complications in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

BACKGROUND: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. CAP can trigger acute cardiac events. We sought to determine the incidence of major cardiac complications in CAP patients to characterize the magnitude of this problem. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Two investigato...

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Autores principales: Corrales-Medina, Vicente F., Suh, Kathryn N., Rose, Gregory, Chirinos, Julio A., Doucette, Steve, Cameron, D. William, Fergusson, Dean A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001048