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Pregnancy and Postpartum Period Community-Acquired Pneumonia

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Pregnancy is a condition that can affect all organ systems differently by creating anatomical, physiological, and biochemical changes and cause susceptibility to infections. The suspicion of pneumonia is postponed by the patients and physicians due to avoid both the radiation that may need to be exposed for diagnosis and drugs’ teratogenic effects.

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  3. Department of Pneumonology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

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Arslan, N.G., Ulubay, G., Skoczyński, S. (2022). Pregnancy and Postpartum Period Community-Acquired Pneumonia. In: Cingi, C., Özel, H.E., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) ENT Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment during Pregnancy and Lactation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05303-0_62

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