A Case of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia with a Fulminant Course in a Previously Healthy Boy / 소아알레르기및호흡기학회지
Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease
;
: 191-198, 2009.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-80368
ABSTRACT
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired respiratory infection in children. Through uncertain pathologic mechanisms, which most probably involve immunologically cell-mediated tissue damage, it causes life-threatening disease on rare occasion. We herein report a case of M. pneumoniae pneumonia, with encephalopathy followed by multiple organ failure in a previously healthy boy. Despite of intensive therapies with intravenous antibiotics, corticosteroid, hemodiafiltration, and transfusion, his neurologic and pulmonary sequales have remained. In most cases M. pneumoniae pneumonia are usually self- limiting with benign outcome. Even in healthy individual, however, it can manifest itself with a fulminant course and multi organ failure.
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Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Pneumonia, Mycoplasma
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Hemodiafiltration
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Multiple Organ Failure
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Mycoplasma
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
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