• Pneumonia is an
acute infection of the
parenchyma of the
lung(肺实质), caused by
bacteria, fungi(真菌),
virus, parasite(寄生虫)
etc.
• Pneumonia may also be
caused by other factors
including X-ray,
chemical, allergen
Epidemiology
The morbidity and mortality of
pneumonia are high especially in old
people.
Etiology
There are two
factors involved in
the formation of
pneumonia ,
including pathogens
and host defenses.
Classification
Classification of anatomy
Classification of pathogen
Classification of acquired environment
Ⅰ.Classification by pathogen
Pathogen classification is the most
useful
to treat the patients by choosing
effective
antimicrobial agents
Bacterial pneumonia
(1) Aerobic Gram-positive bacteria,such
as streptococcus pneumoniae, staphy-
lococcus aureus, Group A hemolytic
streptococci
(2) Aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, such
as klebsiella pneumoniae, Hemophilus
influenzae, Escherichia coli
(3) Anaerobic bacteria
Atypical pneumonia
Including Legionnaies pneumonia ,
Mycoplasmal pneumonia ,chlamydia
pneumonia.
Fungal pneumonia
Fungal pneumonia is commonly
caused by candida(念珠菌) and
aspergilosis(曲菌).
pneumocystis jiroveci(肺孢子虫)
Viral pneumonia
Viral pneumonia may be caused by
adenoviruses, respiratory syncytial
virus, influenza, cytomegalovirus,
herpes simplex
Pneumonia caused by
other pathogen
Rickettsias (a fever rickettsia),
(立克次体)
parasites(寄生虫)
protozoa(原虫)
Ⅱ.Classification by anatomy
1. Lobar(大叶性) : Involvement of an
entire lobe
2. Lobular(小叶性) : Involvement of parts
of the lobe only, segmental or of alveoli
contiguous to bronchi
(bronchopneumonia).
3. Interstitial(间质性)
Pathogen identification
Sputum: More than 25 white blood cells
(WBCs) and less than 10 epithelial cells.
Nasotracheal suctioning
BAL, ETA, PSB, LA
Blood culture or pleural effusion culture
Serologic testing (immunological testing)
Molecular Techniques
The principal of therapy
Select antibiotics
According to guideline
Therapy
The therapy should always follow
confirmation of the diagnosis of
pneumonia and should always be
accompanied by a diligent effort to
identify an etiologic agent.
Empiric therapy,(4-8h)
Combined empiric therapy to target
therapy
It is important to evaluate the
severity degree of pneumonia
The critical management decision is
whether the patient will require hospital
admission. It is based on patient
characteristics, comorbid illness,
physical examinations, and basic
laboratory findings.
The diagnostic standard of sever
pneumonia
Altered mental status
Pa02<60mmHg. PaO2/FiO2<300, needing MV
Respiratory rate>30/min
Blood pressure<90/60mmHg
Chest X-ray shows that bilateral infiltration,
multilobar infiltration and the infiltrations
enlarge more than 50% within 48h.
Renal function: U<20ml/h, and <80ml/4h
CAP (社区获得性肺炎)
CAP refers to pneumonia acquired outside of
hospitals or extended-care facilities .
Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the most
commonly identified pathogen.
Other pathogens include Haemophilus influenzae,
mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophilia
pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis and ects.
Drug resistance streptococcus
pneumoniae(DRSP)
Clinical manifestation
The onset is accute
Respiratory symptoms
Extrapulmonary symptoms
signs
Consolidation signs
Moist rales
Respiratory rate or heart rate
Laboratory examination
WBC
X-ray features
Diagnosis
Clinical diagnosis
Pathogen diagnosis
Evaluate the severity degree of
pneumonia
Therapy
Antiinfectious therapy(Combined
empiric therapy to target therapy)
Supportive therapy
Empiric therapy (1)
Outpatient<60 years
old and no comorbid
diseases
Common pathogens:
S pneumoniaes,
M pneumoniae,
C pneumoniae,
H influenzae and
viruses
A new generation
macrolide
A beta-lactam: the
first generation
cephlosporin
A fluoroquinolone
Empiric therapy (2)
Outpatient>65 years old or
having comorbid diseases
or antibiotic therapy within
last 3 months
Common pathogens: S
pneumoniae(drug-
resistant), M pneumoniae,
C pneumoniae, H
pneumoniae, H
influenzae, Viruses,
Gram-negative bacilli and
S aureus
A fluoroquinolone
A beta-lactam / beta-
lactamase inhibitor
The second generation
cephalosporin
or combination of a
macrolide
Empiric therapy (3)
Inpatient : Not
severely ill.
Common pathogen:S
pneumoniae, H
influenzae,
polymicrobial,
Anaerobes, S aureus,
C pneumoniae,
Gram-negative bacilli.
The second or third
generation
cephalosporin plus
A macrolide
A
beta-lactam/betalact
amase inhibitor.
A newer
fluoroquinolone
Empiric therapy (4)
Inpatient severely ill
Common pathogens:S
pneumoniae, Gram-
negative bacilli, M
pneumoniae, S aureus
and viruses
The second or third
generation
cephalosporin plus A
macrolide
A
beta-lactam/betalactam
ase inhibitor.
A newer
fluoroquinolone
Vancomycin
Empiric therapy (5)
Patients in ICU without
Pneudomonas
aeruginosa infection
The second or third
generation
cephalosporin plus A
macrolide
A
beta-lactam/betalactam
ase inhibitor.
A newer
fluoroquinolone
Vancomycin
Empiric therapy (6)
Patients in ICU with
Pneudomonas
aeruginosa infection
A antipneudomonas
aeruginosa beta-
lactam/betalactamas
e inhibitor plus
fluoroquinolone
prognosis
preventive
HAP(医院获得性肺炎)
HAP refers to pneumonia acquired in
the hospital setting.
Enteric Gram-negative organisms, S.
aureus, Pneudomonas aeruginosa,
ects.
The pathogen of HAP
Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) account
for 55% to 85% of HAP infections
gram-positive cocci account for 20% to
30% and some other pathogens.
EPIDEMIOLOGY
General risk factors for
developing HAP include age
more than 70 years, serious
comorbidities, malnutrition,
impaired consciousness,
prolonged hospitalization, and
chronic obstructive pulmonary
diseases.
EPIDEMIOLOGY
HAP is the most common infection occurring in
patients requiring care in an intensive care unit
(ICU), with incidence rates ranging from 6% up to
52%, much higher than the 0.5% to 2%
incidence reported for hospitalized patients as a
whole.
This increased incidence is due to the fact that
patients located in an ICU often require
mechanical ventilation, and mechanically
ventilated patients are 6 to 21 times more likely to
develop HAP than are nonventilated patients.
Mechanical ventilation is associated
PATHOGENESIS
Aspiration :Microaspiration of
contaminated oropharyngeal secretions
seems to be the most important of
these factors, as it is the most common
cause of HAP.
Inhalation
Contamination
Clinical manifestations
The onset is acute or insidious
Respiratory symptoms
Physical signs
Laboratory examinations
Chest X-ray
diagnosis
Clinical diagnosis
Pathogen diagnosis
Evaluate the severity degree of
pneumonia
Treatment (1)
Antibiotic therapy: antimicrobial therapy begin
promptly because delays in administration of
antibiotics have been associated with worse
outcomes.
The initial selection of an antimicrobial agent
is almost always made on an empiric basis
and is based on factors such as severity of
infection, patient-specific risk factors, and
total number of days in hospital before onset.
Treatment (2)
All empiric treatment regimens should
include coverage for a group of core
organisms that includes aerobic gram
negative bacilli (Enterobacter spp,
Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp, Proteus
spp, Serratia marcescens, and
Hemophilus influenzae) and gram-positive
organisms such as Streptococcus
pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus.
Treatment (3)
In patients with mild or moderate infections and
no specific risk factors for resistant or unusual
pathogens, monotherapy with a second-
generation cephalosporin such as cefuroxime; a
nonpseudomonal third-generation cephalosporin
such as ceftriaxone; or a beta-lactam/beta-
lactamase inhibitor such as
ampicillin/sulbactam, ticarcillin/clavulanate, or
piperacillin/tazobactam may be appropriate.
For patients in this low-risk category who have
an allergy to penicillin, it is appropriate to initially
use a fluoroquinolone
Treatment (4)
Patients with severe infections with specific risk
factors should have broadened empiric coverage.
Combination therapy should be employed in these
cases because of the high rate of acquired resistance
among these organisms.
Appropriate combinations for this group of patients
include an aminoglycoside or ciprofloxacin in addition
to a beta-lactam with antipseudomonal coverage.
Additionally, vancomycin should be considered if the
patient has risk factors that suggest methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus could be a pathogen.
ICHP (免疫低下宿主肺炎 )
Pneumonia in an immunocompromised
host describes a lung infection that
occurs in
a person whose ability to fight infection
is greatly impaired.
(Non-HIV-ICH)
Causes, incidence, and risk
factors
Immunosuppression can be caused by HIV
infection, leukemia, organ transplantation,
bone marrow transplant, and medications to
treat cancer.
Microorganisms include all kinds of bacteria
and virus(CMV), candida(念珠菌) and
aspergilosis(曲菌).
pneumocystis carinii(PCP,卡氏肺孢子虫
)
Symptoms
The onset is incidous , but clinical
Symptoms are severe.
Fever
Nonproductive (dry) cough or cough with
mucus-like, greenish, or pus-like sputum
PCP
Fungal infection
Diagnosis
Earlier finding and diagnosis
Pathogen diagnosis
Chest x-ray
Sputum gram stain, other special stains, and
culture
Arterial blood gases
Bronchoscopy
Chest CT scan,
Tissue diagnosis
Treatment
Antimicroorganism therapy
The goal of treatment is to get rid of the infection
with antibiotics or antifungal agents. The specific
drug used will depend on what kind of organism
is causing the problem. One drug may kill one
type of organism, but not another.
Respiratory treatments (to remove fluid and
mucus) and oxygen therapy are often needed.
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Abstraction
• Pneumococcal
pneumonia is
produced by
streptococcal
pneumoniae
• It is the most
commonly occurring
bacterial
pneumonia
Etiology
• Streptococcus pneumonia are
encapsulated,
gram-positive cocci that occur in
chains or
pairs
• The capsule which is a complex
polysaccharide
has specific antigenicity
• Type 3 is the most virulent,
usually causing
severe pneumonia in adults, but
type 6,14,19
and 23 are virulents is children
Bacteria are introduced into the
lungs by the four routes
Source Route Response Outcome
colonization aspiration
Air inhalation
Non-pulmonary blood lung pneu.
infection stream defenses
Contiguous direct
infection extention
pathogenesis
Pneumococci usually
reach the lungs by
inhalation or
aspiration. They
lodge in the
bronchioles,
proliferation and
initiate an
inflammatory process.
Pathology
Congestion
red hepatization
grey hepatization
resolution)
Pathology
Red hepatilization
◆
All of the four main stages of the
inflammatory
reaction described above may be present at
the
same time
◆ In most cases, recovery is complete with
restoration of normal pulmonary anatomy
Clinical manifestations
Clinical manifestations (1)
• Many patients have had an upper respiratory
infection for several days before the onset of
pneumonia
• Onset usually is sudden, half cases with a
shaking chill
• The temperature rises during the first few
hours to 39-40
℃
Clinical manifestations (2)
Typically, patients have the symptoms
of high fever , shaking chill, sharp
chest pain, cough, dyspnea and
blood-flecked sputum.
But in some cases, especially those at
age extremes symptoms may be
more insidious.
• The pulse accelerates
• Sharp pain in the involved hemi thorax
• The cough is initially dry with pinkish or
blood-flecked sputum
• Gastrointestinal symptoms such as,
anorexia, nausea, vomiting abdominal
pain, diarrhea may be mistaken as acute
abdominal inflammation
Clinical manifestations (3)
Signs
1
• The acutely ill patient is tachypneic, and
may be observed to use accessory muscles
for respiration, and even to exhibit nasal
flaring
• Fever and tachycardia are present, frank
shock is unusual, except in the later stages
of infection or DIC
Signs 2
• Auscultation of the chest reveals
bronchovesicular or tubular breath
sounds and wet rales over the
involved lung
• A consolidation occurs, vocal and
tactile fremitus are increased
Laboratory examinations
Laboratory examinations (1)
• The peripheral white blood cell (WBC) count
• Before using antibiotic, the culture of blood and
of expectorated purulent sputum between 24-48
hours can be used to identify pneumococci
• Colony counts of bacteria from bronchoalveolar
lavage washings obtained during endoscopy
are
seldom available early in the course of illness
• Use of the PCR may amplify pneumococcal
DNA and improve potential for detection
X-ray examination
• Chest radiographs is more sensitive than
physical examination
• PA and lateral chest radiographs are
invaluable to detect pneumonia
X-ray examination
• Usually lobar or
segmental
consolidation
suggests a bacterial
cause for pneumonia
• If blunting of the
costophrenic angle is
noted, pleural
effusion may be
exist.
The features of CT
Air-bronchogram sign
Complications
In 5% to 10% of patients, infection may extend into the
pleural space and result in an empyema (脓胸)
In 15% to 20% of patients, bacteria may enter
the blood stream (bacteremia) via the lymphatics
and thoracic dust.
Invasion of the blood stream by pneumococci
may lead to serious metastatic disease at a
number of extra pulmonary sites (meningitis,
arthritis, pericarditis, endocarditis, peritonitis,
ostitis media etc).
Diagnosis
According to history, the clinical signs ,
physical examinations, laboratory
examinations and radiographic
features
it is not difficult to make the diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• Other microbial pneumonias:
klebsiella pneumonia,
staphylococal pneumonia,
pneumonias due to G (-) bacilli,
viral and mycoplasmal
• Acute lung abscess
• Bronchogenic carcinoma
• Pulmomary infarction
Treatments
Antibiotics
Support therapy
Therapy of complications
Antibiotic therapy (1)
• All patients with suspected pneumococcal
pneumonia should be treated as promptly as
possible with penicillin G
• The dose and route of delivery may have to
be on the basis of patients status adverse
rea-
ction or complication that occur
• For patients who are believed to be
allergic to penicillin, one may select the
first or second generation cephalosporin
or advanced macrolide+ β -lactam or
respiratory fluoroquinolone alone.
For patients with PRSP, one may select the
second and third generation
cephalosporin or advanced macrolide+ β -
lactam or respiratory fluoroquinolone
alone.
In some cases, vancomycin may be used.
Antibiotic therapy (2)
Antibiotic therapy
• Treatment with any effective agent
should be given for at least 5 to 7
day or after the patients have been
afebrile for 2-3 days
Supportive measure
Supportive measure are generally used in
the initial management of acute pneumo-
coccal pneumonia, such measures include
• Bed rest
• Monitoring vital signs and urine output
• Administering an occasional analgesic to
relieve pleuritic pain
• Replacing fluids, if the patient is dehydrated
• Correcting electrolytes
• Oxygen therapy
Treatment of complications
• Empyema develops in appoximately 5% of patients
with pneumococcal pneumonia, although pleural
effusion commonly develop in 10%- 20% patients
• Chest X-ray with lateral decubitus films are often
useful in the early recognition of pleural effusion,
pleural fluid that is removed should be subjected to
routing examination
• If pneumococcal bacteremia occurs, extra pulmonary
complications such as arthritis, endocarditis must be
excluded, because the therapy requires higher dosages
• Treatment of infections shock
Prognosis
Prognosis is much better
Any of the following factors makes the prognosis
less favorable and convalescence more prolonged
elderly
• involvement of 2 or more lobes
• underlying chronic diseases (heart lung
kidney) normal temperature and WBC
count <5000
• immunodeficiency with severe complication
Prevention
The most important
preventive tool available
is using a poly valent
pneumococcal vaccine
in those with chronic
lung diseases, chronic
liver diseases,
splenectomy, diabetes
mellitus
and aged
Staphylococcus pneumonia
• Staphylococcal
pneumonia is usually
caused by
staphylococcus
aureus
• It is often a
complication of influenza,
but may be
primary, particularly in
infants and the aged
•
It occurs in immunocompromissed patients such as
diabetes mellitus
hematologic disease ( leukemia, lymphoma,
leukopenia )
AIDS, liver disease, malnutrition, alcoholism
• Staphylococcal bacteremia complicating
infections at
other sites (furuncles, carbuncles) may cause
hematogenous pulmonary involvement (due to
blood
spread)
• Some or all of the symptoms of pneumococcal
pneumonia (high fever, shaking chill, pleural pain,
productive cough) may be present, sputum may be
copious and salmon-colored
• Prostration is often marked
• According the symptoms, signs of pneumonia,
leukocytosis and a positive sputum or blood
culture, the diagnosis can be made
• Gram stain of the
sputum provides
earliest
diagnostic clue
• Chest X-ray early in
the disease shows
many small round
areas of densities that
enlarge and coalesce
to from abscess, and
leave evidence of
multiple cavities
• Until the sensitivity results are know, a
penicillinase–resistant penicillin or a
cephalosporin should be given
• Therapy is continued for 2 weeks after
the patient has become afebrile and the
lungs have shown signs of clearing
• Vancomycin is the drug of choice for
patients allergic to penicillin and cepha-
losporin and for those not responding to
other antistaphylococcal drugs, mainly used in MRSA.
Pneumonia caused by klebsiella
Klebsiella pneumonia ( also named
Friedlander
pneumonia) is an acute lung infection, caused
by
Klebsiella pneumoniae 1, it occurs much more
in
aged, malnutrition, chronic alcoholism, and
in
whom with bronchial pulmonary disease
• This pneumonia is most likely to be found in
man with middle age, onset usually is
sudden,
with high fever, cough, pleuritic pain, abundant
sputum, cyanosis, tachycardia my be present,
half cases with a shaking chill
• Shock appears in early stage
• Clinical manifestations are similar to sever
pneumococcal pneumonia
• The sputum is viscid and “ropy”, and may be
“brick red” in color
• Chest X-ray shows a downward curve of the
horizontal interlobar fissure, if the right
upper lobe is involved
• Areas of increased radiance whithin dense
consolidation suggest cavitation
• It constitutes 2% of bacterial pneumonia,
but mortality may be as high as 30%
• When an elderly patient suffered from acute
pneumonia with sever toxic symptom, viscid
and “brick red”, sputum must consider this
disease
• The diagnosis is determined by bacterial
examination of sputum
• Early using antimicrobial therapy is im-
portant for patients with survivable ill-
illnesses, aminoglycoside (Kanamycin, Amikacin,
Gentamycin ) and the third generation cephalosporin are
often used.
Mycoplasmal pneumonia
• Mycoplasmal pneumonia is caused
by Mycoplasmal
pneumoniae
• Mycoplasmal pneumoniae is one
of the smallest
organisms 125-150 μm capable of
replication in
cell-free media
• Infection is spread form person
to person by
respiratory secretions expelled
during bouts of
coughing, causing epidemic or
sporadic occurance
• It commonly occurs in children, adolescent, mainly
in fall and winter
• It constitutes more than 1/3 of non bacterial
pneumonias, or 10% of pneumonias from all cause
• Cellular infiltrate around bronchioles, and in
alveolar interstitium, consists mostly of mono-
nuclear elements
Clinical findings
• The illness begins insidiously with
constitutional
symptomatology:
malaise, sore throat, cough, fever,
myalgia
• Half of cases have no symptom
•
Chest X-ray
Chest X-ray findings are
manifold
• Most patients have
unilateral lower lobe
segmental abnormalities
• The earliest signs are an
interstitial accentuation
of marking with
subsequent patch air
space
consolidation and
thickened bronchial
shadows
• The pneumonia may persist for 3-4 weeks
a slight leukocytosis is seen, with a normal
differential count
• The diagnosis is generally proved by a single
antibody titer of 1:32 or greater, a titer of
cold agglutinins of 1:32 or greater a single
Ig M determination
• The most promising in terms of speed,
sensitivity and specificity is PCR although
cost and lack of general availability limit its
routine use
Therapy
A definite clinical response
is seen to erythromycin and
some other newer macrolide
Legionnaies Pneumonia
Legionella can be an opportunistic
pathogen.
Patients with immunosuppression
are at increased risk for infection.
But sometimes outbreaks do occur
in previously healthy individuals.
Legionellae are small,
gram-negative,
obligately aerobic
baclli.
.
Legionnaires’ disease is
acquried by inhaling
aerosolized water
containing Legionella
organisms or possibly by
pulmonary aspiration of
contaminated water.
The contaminated water are
derived from humidifiers,
shower heads, respiratory
therapy equipment,
industrail cooling water.
Because of the frequently use
of air conditioner,
Legionnaies pneumonia is
also seen in CAP
Clinical manifestations
The onset of L.pneumonia is
sometimes severe.
High fever, rigors, and significant
hypoxemia are usually seen in
patients with L.pneumonia.
Failure to rapidly appropriate therapy
in these cases is likely to result in a
poor outcome.
Common signs include cough,
dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain,
gastrointestinal symptoms,
especially diarrhea or localized
abdominal pain, nausea, vomitting
are a prominent finding in 20% to
40% of patients with L.pneumonia.
Physical examination
Physical finding are often similar to
other pneumonias.
Rales are usually present over
involved areas
Pulse rate is not coincide to the body
temperate.
Chest X-ray
No diagnostic features on
the chest X-ray
distinguish it from other
pneumonia
Infiltrates can be
unilateral, bilateral,
patchy, or dense, and can
spread very quickly to
involve the entire lung,
pleural effusion, usually
small in volume occurs
Routine laboratory tests
also are nonspecific.
Laboratory examination
Serologic testing is the most often
used for establishing a diagnosis.
A fourfold or greater rise in antibody
is considered definitively exist for
Legionella.
Diagnosis
According to history, clinical signs,
X-ray features and serologic testing,
we can diagnose it.
Therapy
Erythromycin is considered the drug
of choice.It should be given until
clinical improvement is seen.It
usually lasts 2-3 weeks.
Candidiasis
Candidiasis is an opportunistic
disease, it is caused by candida.
Clinical signs
Respiratory signs: fever,cough, sputum
production, dyspnea.
X-ray shows no specific.It is similar to
acute pneumonia.
diagnosis
Mainly according to sputum culture or
biopsy of lung.
Therapy
Nystatin or various azole drugs
Aspergillosis
Aspergillosis refers to infection with any
of species of the genus Aspergillus
Clinical signs
The disease generally occurs in
immunosuppressed and anticancer
therapy patients.
There are four types of pulmonary
aspergillosis.
Clinical signs of Pulmonary
aspergillosis
Presents as chronic productive cough,
hemoptysis, dyspnea, weight loss, fatigue,
chest pain, or fever
Sometimes patients with pulmonary
aspergillosis accompany with prior chronic
lung disease.
Typical picture of an aspergilloma is a
fungus ball in a cavity in an upper lobe
The sputum culture is positive in most
patients.
Diagnosis
The repeated isolation of Aspergillus
from sputum or the demonstration of
hyphae in sputum or BALF suggests
endobronchial infection.
Treatment
With intravenous amphotericin B (1.0
to 1.5 mg/kg daily)
Patients with severe hemoptysis due
to fungus ball of lung may benefit
from lobectomy
Therapy to Infectious Shock
Treatment in intensive care units
cardiac rhythm, blood pressure, cardiac performance, oxygen
delivery, and metabolic derangements can be monitored
Adequate oxygenation and ventilatory support
(sometimes mechanical ventilation)
Effective antibiotic therapy
Maintain blood pressure, including maintain
circulation blood volume, use of dopamine
Questions
1.What is the differences between CAP
and HAP?
2.What is the standard of sever
pneumonia?
3.what are the principals of antibiotic
therapy of various of pneumonias?