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Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Chickenpox is disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), with possibly devastated consequences during pregnancy, for mother and neonate. Pneumonia is most common complication in pregnancy with very high mortality. CASE REPORT: A 39-year-old fem...
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AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24493990 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.s16-s17 |
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author | Baljic, Rusmir Hadzovic, Meliha Mehanic, Snjezana Lukovac, Enra Koluder-Cimic, Nada Baljic, Izet Imsirovic, Bilal |
author_facet | Baljic, Rusmir Hadzovic, Meliha Mehanic, Snjezana Lukovac, Enra Koluder-Cimic, Nada Baljic, Izet Imsirovic, Bilal |
author_sort | Baljic, Rusmir |
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description | CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Chickenpox is disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), with possibly devastated consequences during pregnancy, for mother and neonate. Pneumonia is most common complication in pregnancy with very high mortality. CASE REPORT: A 39-year-old female in third trimester twin pregnancy, referred to Clinic for infectious diseases in Sarajevo, with five days history of illness. Before the admission her condition get worse, with fatigue, exhaustion, and shortness of breath. In a first three days patient was febrile, tachydispnoic and ortopnoic. We started therapy with acyclovir and antibiotic. After four days we had detoriation in patient’s condition. Chest X-ray revealed infiltrative shadows in basal parts of lung. Antimicrobial therapy was changed and corticosteroids were associated. Significant improvement was noticed after five days of therapy. CONCLUSION: Varicella pneumonia during third trimester may have serious consequences for mother and child, with possible fatal outcome. |
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spelling | pubmed-38290922014-02-03 Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy Baljic, Rusmir Hadzovic, Meliha Mehanic, Snjezana Lukovac, Enra Koluder-Cimic, Nada Baljic, Izet Imsirovic, Bilal Mater Sociomed Review Article CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Chickenpox is disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), with possibly devastated consequences during pregnancy, for mother and neonate. Pneumonia is most common complication in pregnancy with very high mortality. CASE REPORT: A 39-year-old female in third trimester twin pregnancy, referred to Clinic for infectious diseases in Sarajevo, with five days history of illness. Before the admission her condition get worse, with fatigue, exhaustion, and shortness of breath. In a first three days patient was febrile, tachydispnoic and ortopnoic. We started therapy with acyclovir and antibiotic. After four days we had detoriation in patient’s condition. Chest X-ray revealed infiltrative shadows in basal parts of lung. Antimicrobial therapy was changed and corticosteroids were associated. Significant improvement was noticed after five days of therapy. CONCLUSION: Varicella pneumonia during third trimester may have serious consequences for mother and child, with possible fatal outcome. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3829092/ /pubmed/24493990 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.s16-s17 Text en © AVICENA 2012 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Baljic, Rusmir Hadzovic, Meliha Mehanic, Snjezana Lukovac, Enra Koluder-Cimic, Nada Baljic, Izet Imsirovic, Bilal Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy |
title | Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy |
title_full | Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy |
title_fullStr | Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy |
title_full_unstemmed | Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy |
title_short | Varicella Pneumonia in a 39-year-old Female in Third Trimester Twin Pregnancy |
title_sort | varicella pneumonia in a 39-year-old female in third trimester twin pregnancy |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24493990 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.s16-s17 |
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