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Complicated Varicella Infection at 8-year-old Boy with Pulmonary Agenesis

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Varicella or chickenpox is highly contagious, childhood infectious disease caused by primary infection with varicella – zoster virus from the herpes family of viruses. Usually it has a mild clinical course, rarely with described complication, mostly...

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Autores principales: Hadzovic–Cengic, Meliha, Baljic, Rusmir, Hadzic, Amir, Lukovac, Enra, Mehanic, Snjezana, Ahmetspahic-Begic, Aida
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24493991
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.s18-s19
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Sumario:CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Varicella or chickenpox is highly contagious, childhood infectious disease caused by primary infection with varicella – zoster virus from the herpes family of viruses. Usually it has a mild clinical course, rarely with described complication, mostly affecting respiratory tract and rarely the central nervous system. CASE REPORT: The case present 8 year old boy hospitalized eighth day of disease with clinical pictures of varicella complication. Upon receipt tachydyspnea, high fever, tachycardia, hypotensive with positive findings on lung auscultation in the sense of pneumonia. Extremely high values of non-specific inflammatory parameters are implied on bacterial infection which is treated using triple antimicrobial therapy and antiviral. A detailed clinical, laboratory and radiological evaluation is determined of clinical disease complication under a picture of MODS that required prolonged multidisciplinary treatment in ICU. CONCLUSION: The disease had a favorable clinical outcome in terms of training completely without consequences but, with the detected congenital absence lower lobe of right lung and transposition of the brachiocephalic trunk.