| アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: There is conflicting evidence regarding the benefit of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in patients with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. We hypothesised that corticosteroid therapy could reduce mortality and length of stay (LOS) in such patients. METHODS: Adult patients with M. pneumoniae pneumonia from January 2010 to December 2013 were identified from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient database. The effects of low-dose and high-dose corticosteroid therapies on mortality, LOS, drug costs and hyperglycaemia requiring insulin treatment were evaluated using propensity score analyses. RESULTS: Eligible patients (n = 2228) from 630 hospitals were divided into no-corticosteroid (n = 1829), low-dose corticosteroid (n = 267) and high-dose corticosteroid (n = 132) groups. The propensity score-matched pairs were generated from no-corticoid and low-dose corticoid groups (251 pairs), or no-corticoid and high-dose corticosteroid groups (120 pairs). Adjunctive corticosteroid therapy did not decrease 30-day mortality. In addition, both low-dose and high-dose corticosteroid therapies were associated with increases in LOS. Furthermore, hyperglycaemia requiring insulin treatment and drug cost increased with corticosteroid use. CONCLUSIONS: Adjunctive treatment with low-dose or high-dose corticosteroids may not be beneficial in M. pneumoniae pneumonia. |
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| ジャーナル名 | BMC pulmonary medicine |
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| Pubmed追加日 | 2017/12/30 |
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| 投稿者 | Tashiro, Masato; Fushimi, Kiyohide; Kawano, Kei; Takazono, Takahiro; Saijo, Tomomi; Yamamoto, Kazuko; Kurihara, Shintaro; Imamura, Yoshifumi; Miyazaki, Taiga; Yanagihara, Katsunori; Mukae, Hiroshi; Izumikawa, Koichi |
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| 組織名 | Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Graduate School of;Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, 852-8501, Japan.;mtashiro@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.;Nagasaki University Infection Control and Education Centre, Nagasaki University;Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan. mtashiro@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.;Department of Health Policy and Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo;Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.;Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.;Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki,;Japan.;Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284447/ |
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