Ever decreasing efficiency of antibiotic treatment due to growing antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria is a critical issue in clinical practice. The two generally accepted major approaches to this problem are the search...
Read MoreAccording to bronchiectasis guidelines, patients with bronchiectasis and three more exacerbations per year should be prescribed to long-term macrolide treatment. The objective of this study is to evaluate the benefits of...
Read MoreMany transplant physicians screen for and treat asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) during post-kidney transplant surveillance. We investigated whether antibiotics are effective in reducing the occurrence of symptomatic urinary tract...
Read MoreBronchopleural fistula (BPF) after lung cancer surgery is a life-threatening complication and often needs two-stage closure after fenestration. Although one-stage closure of BPF is challenging, it would provide shorter treatment...
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The following was originally posted by Kelly Cawcutt, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical...
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