CURB-65 is also a prognostic guideline for CAP, proposed by BTS in 1996. It seems to be similar to the A-DROP system, the greatest difference being the age value used in the scoring. While JRS defines males > 70 years and females > 75 years as high risk elderly, BTS classifies high risk elderly age as > 65 years for both sexes. In our study 19 patients (90.5%) were classified as mild or moderate (class 0-2); 16 of the 19 patients (84.2%) developed acute respiratory failure, and 8 (42.1%) of the 16 died (Table 3) .