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Consenso Intersociedades para el manejo de infecciones respiratorias: bronquitis aguda y enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica. / [Inter-society consensus for the management of respiratory infections: acute bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
Medicina (B.Aires) ; Medicina (B.Aires);73(2): 163-73, 2013.
Article in Es | BINACIS | ID: bin-133144
ABSTRACT
The Argentine Society for Infectious Diseases and other national societies issued updated practical guidelines for the management of acute bronchitis (AB) and reactivations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with the aim of promoting rational use of diagnostic and therapeutic resources. AB is a condition characterized by inflammation of the bronchial airways which affects adults and children without underlying pulmonary disease. It is usually caused by a virus. The diagnosis is based on clinical findings after community acquired pneumonia has been ruled out. Treatment of AB is mainly symptomatic. Antibiotics should be used in immune-compromised hosts, patients with chronic respiratory or cardiac diseases and in the elderly with co-morbidities. Reactivation of COPD is defined as an acute change in the patients baseline clinical situation beyond normal day to day variations, with an increase in dyspnea, sputum production and/or sputum purulence, warranting a change in medication. An increase in one symptom is considered a mild exacerbation, two as moderate, and the presence of three symptoms is considered a severe exacerbation. An infectious agent can be isolated in sputum in 50 to 75
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Collection: 01-internacional / 06-national / AR Database: BINACIS / LILACS Main subject: Bronchitis / Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Anti-Bacterial Agents Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Guideline / Risk_factors_studies Country/Region as subject: America do sul / Argentina Language: Es Journal: Medicina (B.Aires) Journal subject: MEDICINA Year: 2013 Document type: Article Country of publication: Argentina
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Collection: 01-internacional / 06-national / AR Database: BINACIS / LILACS Main subject: Bronchitis / Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Anti-Bacterial Agents Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Guideline / Risk_factors_studies Country/Region as subject: America do sul / Argentina Language: Es Journal: Medicina (B.Aires) Journal subject: MEDICINA Year: 2013 Document type: Article Country of publication: Argentina