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treatment failure, pneumonia
Etiology:
1) inadequate antibiotic therapy
2) resistant organism
- empiric quinolone therapy may mask active tuberculosis [2]
3) inadequate blood levels of antibiotic(s)
4) non-compliance
5) unusual pathogen
6) drug hypersensitivity
7) Clostridium difficile (pseudomembranous) colitis
8) complication:
a) empyema
b) superinfection
c) atelectasis
d) parapneumonic effusion
e) phlebitis
9) poor host defense
a) endobronchial obstruction
b) life-threatening comorbidity
10) incorrect diagnosis (i.e. non-infectious etiology)
a) congestive heart failure
b) carcinoma of the lung
c) pulmonary embolism
d) inflammatory conditions
1] Wegener's granulomatosis
2] hypersensitivity pneumonitis
e) drug-induced pneumonitis
Related
pneumonia (PNA)
General
treatment failure
References
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed.
Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 1187
- Journal Watch 22(15):117, 2002
Dooley KE et al, Clin Infect Dis 34:1607, 2002