Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy

Infection with Influenza virus is uncommon in the present times, though a number of cases were reported during pandemics in 1918 in various regions of America. We report a case where a young male patient presented to the hospital with a clinical picture of acute respiratory distress syndrome that tu...

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Autores principales: Nandwani, Shafali, Pande, Apurva, Saluja, Mahip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24479080
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.117427
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description Infection with Influenza virus is uncommon in the present times, though a number of cases were reported during pandemics in 1918 in various regions of America. We report a case where a young male patient presented to the hospital with a clinical picture of acute respiratory distress syndrome that turned out to be a viral pneumonia caused by Influenza A virus and it aggravated an underlying yet undiagnosed mitral valve stenosis.
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spelling pubmed-38940402014-01-29 Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy Nandwani, Shafali Pande, Apurva Saluja, Mahip J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Infection with Influenza virus is uncommon in the present times, though a number of cases were reported during pandemics in 1918 in various regions of America. We report a case where a young male patient presented to the hospital with a clinical picture of acute respiratory distress syndrome that turned out to be a viral pneumonia caused by Influenza A virus and it aggravated an underlying yet undiagnosed mitral valve stenosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3894040/ /pubmed/24479080 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.117427 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy
title Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy
title_full Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy
title_fullStr Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy
title_full_unstemmed Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy
title_short Influenza A Infection Unmasking an Underlying Mitral Valve Stenosis in a 19-Year-Old Boy
title_sort influenza a infection unmasking an underlying mitral valve stenosis in a 19-year-old boy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24479080
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