Septic shock, necrotizing pneumonitis, and meningoencephalitis caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae in a child: A case report

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-322

  Barreira, Eliane R ^a,b   Souza, Daniela C ^b   Gáes, Patricia F ^a   Bousso, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Meningoencephalitis; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Pulmonary necrosis; Septic shock; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; FUROSEMIDE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PHENOBARBITAL; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 64549108474     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922808327108     Document Type: Article

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