Infectious pneumonia among COPD patients.

ABSTRACT

This communication described our experiences on pneumonia’s in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exclusive of bronchial asthma (based on cases admitted during the past three years at the Siriraj Hospital), compared to pneumonia’s in previously healthy persons. There were conspicuous discrepancies between the two groups of patients in respects to their clinical manifestations (symptoms, physical signs, chest radiographic features, complete blood counts and arterial blood gas analysis), microbiological profiles, medical treatment and outcome.