The haemodialysis patient who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome after a trip to a hot spring spa

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 455-457

  Shimizu, Yoshio ^a,b   Nagase, Keisuke ^a   Kadono, Ken Nosuke ^b   Funayama, Yasunori ^b   Tsurushima, Yohko ^b   Hibino, Toshiko ^b   Kikuchi, Hiroshi ^b   Nagase, Sohji ^a   Koyama, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Gakuen Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical pneumonia; Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; Haemodialysis patients; Hot spring spa; Immunocompromised hosts; Legionella pneumophila

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; PANIPENEM; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COUGHING; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK FACTOR; SPA TREATMENT; THERMAL SPRING;

ACUTE DISEASE; BALNEOLOGY; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032945792     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.2.455     Document Type: Article

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