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Severe Pneumonia
Critical Care Medicine · Respiratory
Severe
Severity
Common — a leading cause of hospitalization and death from infectious disease worldwide, especially in the elderly
Prevalence
Yes
Contagious
Critical Care Medicine
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Severe pneumonia most commonly results from bacterial infection
- 2particularly Streptococcus pneumoniae
- 3though it can also be caused by viral infections such as influenza or COVID-19
- 4or less commonly by fungal organisms
- 5particularly in people with weakened immune systems. Progression to severe disease is more likely in people with underlying chronic lung or heart disease
- 6older age
- 7weakened immunity
- 8or delayed treatment of the initial infection. Aspiration of food
- 9liquid
- 10or vomit into the lungs can also lead to severe pneumonia
- 11particularly in people with swallowing difficulties.
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