Severe pulmonary hemorrhage in patients with serious group A streptococcal infections: Report of two cases

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1317-1319

  Ooe, Kenji ^a   Nakada, Hirokazu ^a   Udagawa, Hideo ^a   Shimizu, Yoshikata ^a  

^a ASAHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CASE REPORT; CYANOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0033018951     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514785     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. 1. Stevens DL. Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. Emerg Infect Dis 1995; 1:69-78.
2. 2. The Working Group on Severe Streptococcal Infections. Defining the group A streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: rationale and consensus definition. JAMA 1993; 269:390-1.
3. 3. Ooe K, Udagawa H. A new type of serious group A streptococcal infection in obstetric patients: report of two cases. Hum Pathol 1997; 28:509-12.
4. 4. Cramer SF, Tomleiwicz ZM. Septic pulmonary thrombosis in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. Hum Pathol 1995; 26:1157-60.
5. 5. Hasleton PS. Spencer's pathology of the lung. 5th ed. New York: McGrawHill, 1996.
6. 6. Louie S, Russell LA, Richeson RB III, Cross CE. Circulating immune complexes with pulmonary hemorrhage during pregnancy in idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis. Chest 1993; 104:1907-9.
7. 7. Ference BA, Shannon TM, White RI Jr, Zawin M, Burdge CM. Life threatening pulmonary hemorrhage with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Chest 1994; 106: 1387-90.
8. 8. Myers JL. Pathology of drug-induced lung disease. In: Katzenstein AA, ed. Katzenstein and Askin's surgical pathology of non-neoplastic lung disease. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1997:81-111.
9. 9. Debs RJ, Fuchs HJ, Philip R, et al. Lung-specific delivery of cytokine induces sustained pulmonary and systemic immunomodulation in rats. J Immunol 1988; 140:3482-8.
10. 10. Schilling PJ, Murray JL, Markowitz AB. Novel tumor necrosis factor toxic effects. Cancer 1992; 69:256-60.