Corticosteroids as adjunctive therapy in severe blastomycosis-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome in an immunosuppressed patient

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Plamondon, Mireille ^a   Lamontagne, François ^b   Allard, Catherine ^a   Pépin, Jacques ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN BIOPSY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953763788     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653429     Document Type: Article

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