Epidemiology and clinical aspects of pneumonia in the ICU

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: T. Bauer (Bochum, Germany), J. Badia Jobal (Barcelona, Spain)

Epidemiology of nosocomial infections in a newly established intensive care unit E. Kostadima, M. Mpaka, G. Garoufalis, I. Mavrou, M. Alexopoulos, A. Androutsos, D. Sfiras (Larisa, Greece)
Nosocomial pneumonia in intensive care unit O. M. Gajovic, Z. M. Lazic, P. S. Canovic, Z. V. Todorovic (Kragujevac)
Community acquired pneumonia in a respiratory ICU J. Vizcaino, G. Brum, S. Furtado, J. Valença, F. Monteiro, J. Monteiro, P. Azevedo, A. A. Bugalho de Almeida (Lisbon, Portugal)
Severe community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in ventilated elderly: a 12 yr experience J. Valença, G. Brum, S. Furtado, J. Vizcaino, F. Monteiro, J. T. Monteiro, P. Azevedo, A. A. Bugalho de Almeida (Lisboa, Portugal)
Nosocomial pneumonia in a respiratory ICU a 12 yr experience G. Brum, J. T. Monteiro, J. Valença, M. Fonseca, F. Monteiro, P. Azevedo, A. A. Bugalho de Almeida (Lisboa, Portugal)
Clinical and radiological aspects at the HIV-1 infected children with cell severe imunodepression and pulmonary TBC confirmed at the bacteriological level S. Verescu, D. Duiculescu, O. Verescu, E. Ungureanu, R. Radoi, C. Orea, C. Roiu (Bucharest, Romania)
Risk factors for infections with potentially resistant pathogens in patients in a pneumological intensive-care-unit R. Erbes, M. Raffenberg, H. Mauch, H. Lode (Berlin, Germany)
Pulmonary infiltrates in allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients A. Rano, M. Rovira, C. Agusti, J. Gonzalez, A. Torres (Barcelona, Spain)
Prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukemia admitted in intensive care A. Rabbat, O. Legrand, D. Montani, D. Chaoui, A. Lefèbvre, B. Vincent, A. Delmer, B. Rio, J. P. Marie, G. Huchon (Paris, France)
The incidence and mortality rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia in elderly patients B. Grammatikopoulou, A. Tasiou, G. Burikis, P. Tselioti, A. Giannakopoulou, S. Fournogerakis, C. Ressos, D. Maltezos, A. Prekates ()
Pneumonia in ICU patients after stroke Z. S. Arsovski, D. V. Dokic, B. Kaeva, A. A. Arsovska, A. M. Popovski (Skopje, Fyrom)
Use of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary complications in immunocompromised patients in intensive care unit (ICU) J. Skrickova, A. Hrazdirova, J. Mayer, J. Vorlicek, Z. Merta, J. Koptikova (Brno, Czech Republic)
Diagnostic value of daily endotracheal aspirate cultures for the therapeutic management of ventilator-associated pneumonia A. Azzola, R. Frei, M. Tamm, C. Scheidegger (Basel, Switzerland)
Etiologic investigation of pneumonia in intensive care unit A. Machado, V. Hespanhol, M. Sucena, A. Mota, A. Amorim, A. Magalhães (Porto, Portugal)
Etiology and prognosis factors in severe community acquired pneumonia A. Celikhisar, H. Celikhisar, O. Uslu, S. Z. Guclu (Izmir, Turkey)
The clinical and therapeutically evaluation of the pleural empyema hospitalized at the National Pneumology Institute -Marius Nasta- during 1999-2000 C. Roiu, R. Popea, N. Galie, C. Marica (Bucharest, Romania)
Factors influencing initial treatment effect and outcome of pneumonia V. Dudzevicius, R. Sakalauskas, A. Vitkauskiene (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Aspergillus bronchitis in the intensive care unit (ICU) G. Dimopoulos, E. Perros, A. Stratis, K. Konstantinou, A. Rasidakis (Athens, Greece)
Efficacy and safety of systemic and prolonged low-dose thrombolysis in thromboembolic disease P. A. Bulpa, E. Paternotte, G. Carbutti, J. C. Osselaer, M. Gonzalez, A. Dive, E. Installe, P. Evrard (Yvoir, Belgium)
Endothelin in patients with previous pulmonary embolism M. Sofia, G. De Laurentiis, F. Cirillo, M. Maniscalco, G. Di Minno, L. Carratù (Napoli, Italy)