Successful treatment of a previously healthy woman with Pseudomonas aeruginosa community-acquired pneumonia with plasmapheresis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 2809-2812

  Okamoto, Masashi ^a   Yamaoka, Junko ^a   Chikayama, Satoshi ^a   Ohishi, Tohru ^a   Nakajima, Tomoki ^a   Nakashima, Toshiaki ^a  

^a Saiseikai Kyoto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Plasma exchange; Plasmapheresis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SIVELESTAT; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84867834361     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7921     Document Type: Article

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