Twenty-eight alcoholic patients with community-acquired pneumonia who were admitted to
a referral medical center during a 3-year period were reviewed. All were men and with few
exceptions were heavy smokers. The overall mortality was 64.3%. The most dramatic group
was that of 11 patients (39.3%) with bacteremic Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia (BKPP),
which had high mortality rate (100%), short onset of illness before hospital admission
(42.6±8.2 h, mean±SD), and short survival time after the admission (24.6±7.9 h). All these 11 …