Long-term Survival Following Pneumococcal Pneumonia Key point: Pneumococcal pneumonia foretold considerably higher 10-year mortality than the expected rate. Citation: Sandvall B, Rueda AM, Musher DM. Long-term survival following pneumococcal pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis. 2013;56(8):1145-1146. Before antibiotics, pneumonia was called “the old man’s friend” for carrying the old and infirm to a swift and relatively painless death. Now that short-term survival after pneumonia is the rule, does the disease provide any long-term prognostic information? Veterans Administration …
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