Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to strongyloides stercoralis infection in a patient with cervical cancer

Internal Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 83-87

  Kinjo, Takeshi ^a   Nabeya, Daijiro ^a   Nakamura, Hideta ^a   Haranaga, Shusaku ^a   Hirata, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamoto, Tomoko ^a   Atsumi, Eriko ^a   Fuchigami, Tatsuya ^a   Aoki, Yoichi ^a   Fujita, Jiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Corticosteroid; Human T cell lymphotropic virus 1; Ivermectin; Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS ANTIBODY; IVERMECTIN; PACLITAXEL; CORTICOSTEROID;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; MELENA; METEORISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VOMITING; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; PARASITOLOGY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RISK FACTORS; SPUTUM; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84920193172     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.3284     Document Type: Article

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