Prognostic impact of early adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in non-HIV oncology or haematology patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: A propensity score analysis

Mehdi Assal; Jérôme Lambert; Laurent Chow-Chine; Magali Bisbal; Luca Servan; Frederic Gonzalez; Jean Manuel de Guibert; Marion Faucher; Norbert Vey; Antoine Sannini; Djamel Mokart

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0250611

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Prognostic impact of early adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in non-HIV oncology or haematology patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: A propensity score analysis

Mehdi Assal,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital La Timone, Marseille, France
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Jérôme Lambert,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Biostatistics Department, Saint Louis Teaching Hospital, Paris, France
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Laurent Chow-Chine,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Magali Bisbal,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Luca Servan,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Frederic Gonzalez,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Jean Manuel de Guibert,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Marion Faucher,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Norbert Vey,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Haematology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Antoine Sannini,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Djamel Mokart

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mokartd@ipc.unicancer.fr

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1711-463X

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Prognostic impact of early adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in non-HIV oncology or haematology patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: A propensity score analysis

Mehdi Assal,
Jérôme Lambert,
Laurent Chow-Chine,
Magali Bisbal,
Luca Servan,
Frederic Gonzalez,
Jean Manuel de Guibert,
Marion Faucher,
Norbert Vey,
Antoine Sannini

Published: April 22, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250611

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