Severe cytomegalovirus (CMV) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) precipitating a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flare

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-252

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Gouzhva, Olena ^a   Nausheen, Sara ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; VALGANCICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE COURSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 66449100967     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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