title: Community acquired pneumonia and cardiac diseases: a fatal association.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a common disease condition attributing to a significant mortality and morbidity worldwide. Acute cardiac events (ACEs) are one of the most life-threatening complications in patients with severe pneumonia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study of burden of ACE in 105 patients admitted with CAP.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-five patients with (CURB-65) score ranging between 0 - 2 did not require intensive care unit (ICU) admission and were admitted in the ward and high dependency unit. Of these, 12 developed ACE and 4 required to be shifted to the ICU for further management. Eighty patients with a CURB-65 score of greater than 3 were admitted to the ICU. Of the patients admitted to the ICU, 10 with ACE died; 2 patients without ACE also died.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our observations suggest that ACE constitute an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with CAP requiring hospitalisition.
authors.forename: Tiyas Sen
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Dutt
authors.forename: Syed Zulkharnain
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Tousheed
authors.forename: B V Murali
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Mohan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000401:mortality; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality*; D012189:Retrospective Studies