Respiratory failure presenting in H1N1 influenza with Legionnaires disease: Two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Iannuzzi, Michele ^a   De Robertis, Edoardo ^a   Piazza, Ornella ^a   Rispoli, Fabio ^a   Servillo, Giuseppe ^a   Tufano, Rosalba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Legionella; Respiratory failure; swine flu; viral infection

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; FERRITIN; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; KETOROLAC; LAKE WATER; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NORADRENALIN; OSELTAMIVIR; PARACETAMOL; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTUMN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTUBATION; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RATE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG VOLUME; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALAISE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYALGIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOSE CONGESTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SORE THROAT; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMA; TRACHEOSTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 80054751639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-520     Document Type: Article

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