COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA) in Northern Greece during 2020–2022: A Comparative Study According to the Main Consensus Criteria and Definitions

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) has emerged as an important complication among patients with acute respiratory failure due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Almost 2.5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it continues to raise concerns as an extra fact...

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Autores principales: Siasios, Panagiotis, Arvaniti, Kostoula, Zachrou, Evangelia, Poulopoulou, Aikaterini, Pisanidou, Pinelopi, Vasileiadou, Georgia, Kaimakamis, Evangelos, Georgopoulou, Athina, Renta, Foteini, Lathyris, Dimitrios, Veroniki, Foteini, Geka, Eleni, Soultati, Ioanna, Argiriadou, Eleni, Apostolidou, Eleni, Amoiridou, Pinelopi, Ioannou, Konstantinos, Kouras, Leonidas, Mimitou, Ioanna, Stokkos, Konstantinos, Flioni, Elliniki, Pertsas, Evangelos, Sileli, Maria, Iasonidou, Christina, Sourla, Evdokia, Pitsiou, Georgia, Vyzantiadis, Timoleon-Achilleas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9863007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36675902
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof9010081
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Sumario:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) has emerged as an important complication among patients with acute respiratory failure due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Almost 2.5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it continues to raise concerns as an extra factor that contributes to increased mortality, which is mostly because its diagnosis and management remain challenging. The present study utilises the cases of forty-three patients hospitalised between August 2020 and February 2022 whose information was gathered from ten ICUs and special care units based in northern Greece. The main aim was to describe the gained experience in diagnosing CAPA, according to the implementation of the main existing diagnostic consensus criteria and definitions, and present the different classification of the clinical cases due to the alternative algorithms.

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