Respiratory syncytial virus pneumonitis in immunocompromised adults: Clinical features and outcome

Respiration

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-269

  Ebbert, Jon O ^a   Limper, Andrew H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Respiratory syncytial virus; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22144449652     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085367     Document Type: Article

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