Case 12-2013: An 18-year-old woman with pulmonary infiltrates and respiratory failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1537-1545

  Hunt, Daniel P ^a,b   Muse, Victorine V ^a,b   Pitman, Martha B ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALTEPARIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROMORPHONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INSULIN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LEVALBUTEROL; LORAZEPAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICONAZOLE; NICOTINE; NYSTATIN; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROPOFOL; SALBUTAMOL; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG INFILTRATE; NAUSEA; NIGHT SWEAT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VOMITING; WHEEZING; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876315188     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1209608     Document Type: Article

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