Rapid clinical diagnosis in fatal swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia in an adult with negative rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs): Diagnostic swine influenza triad

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-86

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Syed, Uzma ^a   Mickail, Nardeen ^a   Strollo, Stephanie ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AZITHROMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATINE KINASE; GLUCOSE; KETONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LINEZOLID; NITRIC OXIDE; OSELTAMIVIR; PROTEIN; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SWINE INFLUENZA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINALYSIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CREATINE KINASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 76649123836     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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