Link Between Community-Acquired Pneumonia And Cardiac Complications

Monday, Jan. 23rd 2012 6:40 AM

As major cardiac complications occur in a significant proportion of patients with community-acquired pneumonia-pneumonia contracted outside of health care settings-doctors should be more aware of this association to better inform, treat, and manage patients with this infection, especially as this form of pneumonia is the most frequent cause of infectious disease-related mortality in the US causing 60,000 deaths every year.

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