Clinical significance of Charlson comorbidity index as a prognostic parameter for patients with acute or subacute idiopathic interstitial pneumonias and acute exacerbation of collagen vascular diseases-related interstitial pneumonia.

Conclusions: The composite scoring system including CCI, sex, and serum LDH could be a useful mortality prediction tool for patients with acute or subacute IIPs and AE of CVD-IP requiring steroid pulse therapy. PMID: 31372282 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31372282?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - August 4, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research

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