An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common cause of morbidity in the UK and is increasingly seen in elderly patients, often requiring multiple courses of steroids. We present a case of a 72 year old lady with repeated exacerbations of COPD which did not respond to conventional treatmen...

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Autores principales: Boland, Alison C, Iveson, Elizabeth H, Elliott, Mark W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2089074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17880676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-91
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Elliott, Mark W
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description Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common cause of morbidity in the UK and is increasingly seen in elderly patients, often requiring multiple courses of steroids. We present a case of a 72 year old lady with repeated exacerbations of COPD which did not respond to conventional treatment. Herpes simplex virus (HSV1) tracheobronchitis was diagnosed following a rigid bronchoscopy and her symptoms improved with intravenous acyclovir. This is the first published case of HSV tracheitis in a non immunosuppressed individual with chronic lung disease.
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spelling pubmed-20890742007-11-22 An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report Boland, Alison C Iveson, Elizabeth H Elliott, Mark W J Med Case Reports Case Report Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common cause of morbidity in the UK and is increasingly seen in elderly patients, often requiring multiple courses of steroids. We present a case of a 72 year old lady with repeated exacerbations of COPD which did not respond to conventional treatment. Herpes simplex virus (HSV1) tracheobronchitis was diagnosed following a rigid bronchoscopy and her symptoms improved with intravenous acyclovir. This is the first published case of HSV tracheitis in a non immunosuppressed individual with chronic lung disease. BioMed Central 2007-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2089074/ /pubmed/17880676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-91 Text en Copyright © 2007 Boland et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Boland, Alison C
Iveson, Elizabeth H
Elliott, Mark W
An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report
title An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report
title_full An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report
title_fullStr An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report
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title_short An unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report
title_sort unusual exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) with herpes simplex tracheitis: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2089074/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-91
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