Airway obstruction and acute respiratory failure due to Aspergillus tracheobronchitis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 580-582

  Routsi, Christina ^a   Kaltsas, Panagiotis ^a   Bessis, Evangelos ^a   Rontogianni, Demetra ^b   Kollias, Spyros ^a   Roussos, Charis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Airway obstruction; Aspergillosis; Atelectasis; Immunocompromised host; Tracheobronchitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARMUSTINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYTARABINE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; VINBLASTINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLUS; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOLID TUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRONCHITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TRACHEITIS;

EID: 1242297524     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000110724.86196.3B     Document Type: Article

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