Stroke: Signs of chest computed tomography and lung infection associated with pneumonia or death when patients with acute stroke are admitted to hospital

The occurrence of pneumonia in patients with acute stroke was related to poor function and increased risk of deathIn a recent study published in the journal Stroke, an authoritative journal on cardiovascular disease, researchers looked at the presence and consequences of signs of lung infection scans on chest computed tomography (CT) prior to pneumonia200 patients with acute ischemic stroke who received a CT angiography examination from the skull to the shin muscle (including chest CT) within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms, the researchers assessed the presence of CT signs of nodules, glass-like turbidity and fritters in the lungs on CT, and used Logistic to return to the relationship between the apparent pneumonia development and death of the previous 7 days and the functional outcome after 90 daysthe median time from stroke to CT test was 151 minutes (the four-point spacing was 84-372)At the time of admission, 30 patients (15%) had imaging signs of infection, and 22 (11.0%) of the patients in the first 7 days were clinically diagnosed with pneumoniaPatients with signs of imaging infection had a higher risk of clinical pneumonia (30% vs7.6%; the corrected ratio was 4.2 (95% CI was 1.5-11.7) ;P .006) and the risk of death was higher at 7 days (adjusted ratio of 3.7 (95% CI is 1.2-11.6) ;Pshows that about one in seven patients with acute ischemic stroke have imaging signs of lung infection within hours of the onset of stroke, and that these patients have a higher risk of pneumonia or deathThey should use antibiotics early and may get a better outcome