Fulminant and fatal multiple organ failure in a 12-year-old boy with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection

Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-57

  Park, Se Jin ^a   Pai, Ki Soo ^a   Kim, Ah Reum ^a   Lee, Jang Hoon ^a   Shin, Jae Il ^b   Lee, Soo Young ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Multiple organ failure; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Rhabdomyolysis

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FATALITY; FEVER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

EID: 83755206914     PISSN: 20927355     EISSN: 20927363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4168/aair.2012.4.1.55     Document Type: Article

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