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    Aspiration pneumonia is a type of lung infection that is due to a relatively large amount of material from the stomach or mouth entering the lungs. Signs...
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    developing aspiration pneumonia. Moreover, the misplacement of a feeding tube can lead to aspiration pneumonia. 28% of tube malposition results in pneumonia. As...
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    wrong pipe". Consequences of pulmonary aspiration range from no injury at all, to chemical pneumonitis or pneumonia, to death within minutes from asphyxiation...
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  • of dysphagia. Aspiration, the practice of pulling back on the plunger of a syringe prior to injecting medication. Aspiration pneumonia, a lung infection...
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    the toxic substance is an oil, the pneumonia may be called lipoid pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia (or aspiration pneumonitis) is caused by aspirating...
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    Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or nosocomial pneumonia refers to any pneumonia contracted by a patient in a hospital at least 48–72 hours after being...
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    not increase life expectancy for such people, or protect them from aspiration pneumonia. Feeding tubes can also increase the risk of pressure ulcers, require...
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    neutrophils suggest blastomycosis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, aspiration pneumonia, or cat-scratch disease. In terms of the underlying cause, the difference...
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    Complications such as pneumonia, heart disease, and physical injury from falls reduce life expectancy; although fatal aspiration pneumonia is commonly cited...
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    Dysfunction may cause the inhalation of food, called aspiration, which may lead to pneumonia or airway obstruction. The epiglottis is also an important...
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  • appears serious complications are uncommon. The most dangerous risk is aspiration pneumonia, which is more likely to occur if hydrocarbons are ingested in patients...
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    untreated, patients are at a high risk of pulmonary aspiration and subsequent aspiration pneumonia secondary to food or liquids going the wrong way into...
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    104841. doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104841. PMC 9758284. PMID 36536710. "Aspiration Pneumonia Symptoms. Treatment and Information | Patient". Patient. Retrieved...
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    difficulty). Other symptoms include drooling, dysarthria, dysphonia, aspiration pneumonia, depression, or nasopharyngeal regurgitation as associated symptoms...
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    (being a mild poison itself) and a major risk of esophagitis and aspiration pneumonia if used to purge corrosive poisons. Having long been replaced (even...
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  • physical and sexual abuse, medical incompetence, ten deaths from aspiration pneumonia, and hundreds of other deaths under suspicious circumstances. Forest...
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    decay, be regurgitated, or maybe inhaled into the lungs (leading to aspiration pneumonia). Megaesophagus may occur secondary to diseases such as achalasia...
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    PMID 11444115. Aspiration Pneumonitis and Pneumonia: Overview of Aspiration Pneumonia, Predisposing Conditions for Aspiration Pneumonia, Pathophysiology...
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    either a period of confusion or coma. Other complications include aspiration pneumonia, cerebral hemorrhage, kidney failure, pulmonary edema, HELLP syndrome...
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  • of noticeability. The pragmatic challenge is to distinguish from aspiration pneumonia with an infectious component because the former does not require...
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    depression, coma, or death. Complications may include seizures, aspiration pneumonia, low blood sugar, and injuries or self-harm such as suicide. Alcohol...
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    recurrent pneumonia of a specific lung lobe. If the aspiration occurred weeks or even months ago, the object may lead to an obstructive pneumonia or even...
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    (MERS-CoV) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Aspiration pneumonia Vaccination helps prevent bronchopneumonia, mostly against influenza...
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  • Atypical pneumonia, also known as walking pneumonia, is any type of pneumonia not caused by one of the pathogens most commonly associated with the disease...
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  • Zeus (dog, born 2019) (category Deaths from pneumonia in Texas)
    Zeus died on September 12, 2023, at the age of 3. He had developed aspiration pneumonia following an amputation on his right leg on September 7. The tallest...
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    Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) also known as neonatal aspiration of meconium is a medical condition affecting newborn infants. It describes the spectrum...
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    Lobar pneumonia is a form of pneumonia characterized by inflammatory exudate within the intra-alveolar space resulting in consolidation that affects a...
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    PMC 7136627. PMID 32280824. Marik PE (March 2001). "Aspiration pneumonitis and aspiration pneumonia". The New England Journal of Medicine. 344 (9): 665–71...
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    regurgitation of food and coughing. There is also an increased risk of aspiration pneumonia due to food entering the airways through the abnormal connections...
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  • anaerobic infections of the respiratory tract. These infections include aspiration pneumonia, lung abscess, pulmonary empyema, and chronic otitis media and sinusitis...
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