RESUMO
Necrotizing lymphadenitis of the Kikuchi-Fujimoto type developed in our patient during her first trimester of pregnancy, but she carried the infant to full term with no apparent adverse effect. Two subsequent pregnancies were not associated with reactivation of the disorder, nor with any recognizable adverse effect on the fetuses. A pregnancy should not be terminated because of Kikuchi-Fujimoto necrotizing lymphadenitis when it develops during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Assuntos
Linfadenite , Complicações na Gravidez , Adulto , Biópsia , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Linfonodos/patologia , Linfadenite/diagnóstico , Linfadenite/patologia , Necrose , Gravidez , Complicações na Gravidez/diagnóstico , Complicações na Gravidez/patologia , Resultado da Gravidez , Síndrome , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
A new species of bacteria that is an etiologic agent of human pneumonia has been isolated and characterized. Clinical symptoms of infection with this organism are not readily distinguishable from those caused by Legionella pneumophila infection. The organism was isolated from respiratory tract specimens from four patients. Two cases of infection apparently originated in California and one in Georgia, and a fourth was of unknown geographic origin. The name Legionella longbeachae species nova is proposed for this organism. The type strain of L. longbeachae is Long Beach 4 (= American Type Culture Collection 33462).