id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-270258-9vgpphiu Ko, Jae-Hoon Predictive factors for pneumonia development and progression to respiratory failure in MERS-CoV infected patients 2016-08-09 .txt text/plain 3460 171 43 To identify factors which can predict pneumonia development and progression to respiratory failure at the early course of the disease, we evaluated MERS-CoV infected patients managed in a tertiary care center during the 2015 MERS outbreak in Korea. To identify factors which can predict pneumonia development and progression to respiratory failure at the early course of the disease, we reviewed the electronic medical records of who were diagnosed with MERS-CoV infection and admitted at Samsung Medical Center, a 1950 tertiary care university hospital which managed the largest number of MERS-CoV infected patients as a single center during the 2015 Korean MERS outbreak. The present analysis of predictive factors for pneumonia development and progression to respiratory failure using variables obtained by day 3 of symptom onset could be conducted owing to the observation of entire clinical course of the disease from the exposure to MERS-CoV. ./cache/cord-270258-9vgpphiu.txt ./txt/cord-270258-9vgpphiu.txt