Impact of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection on health-related quality of life in Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease.

Hirofumi KamataTakanori AsakuraShoji SuzukiHo NamkoongKazuma YagiYohei FunatsuSatoshi OkamoriShunsuke UnoYoshifumi UwaminoHiroshi FujiwaraTomoyasu NishimuraMakoto IshiiTomoko BetsuyakuNaoki Hasegawa

Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2017)

MACLD patients with chronic PA infection exhibited significantly higher SGRQ scores, indicating impaired HRQL. Chronic PA infection was significantly associated with the severity of bronchiectasis.

Keyphrases

pseudomonas aeruginosa
cystic fibrosis
mycobacterium tuberculosis
drug induced