Chronic liver disease negatively affects outcome in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia

Affiliations

• ¹ University Hospital Frankfurt - Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• ² Institute for Infectious Diseases and infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Thüringen, Germany.
• ³ CAPNETZ Foundation, Hannover, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charite University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁶ University Hospital Frankfurt - Medical Clinic I - Department of Hepatology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• ⁷ University Hospital Frankfurt - Medical Clinic I, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.
• ⁸ University Hospital Frankfurt - Medical Clinic I - Department of Hepatology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [email protected].
• ⁹ European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.
• ¹⁰ CAPNETZ Foundation, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.