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Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B
BACKGROUND: Influenza B virus infection is generally considered to be mild and is rarely associated pulmonary cardiovascular involvement in adults. However fatal complications may occur. CASE PRESENTATION: A 43-year-old previously healthy Taiwanese male came to our emergency department due to high f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-015-0163-3 |
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author | Chang, Hsu-Liang Hsu, Jui-Feng Tsai, Ying-Ming Lin, Shang-Yi Kuo, Hsuan-Fu Yang, Chih-Jen |
author_facet | Chang, Hsu-Liang Hsu, Jui-Feng Tsai, Ying-Ming Lin, Shang-Yi Kuo, Hsuan-Fu Yang, Chih-Jen |
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description | BACKGROUND: Influenza B virus infection is generally considered to be mild and is rarely associated pulmonary cardiovascular involvement in adults. However fatal complications may occur. CASE PRESENTATION: A 43-year-old previously healthy Taiwanese male came to our emergency department due to high fever, chills, general malaise and myalgia for about 4 days. An influenza rapid test from a throat swab was negative. Chest radiography showed mild left lung infiltration and levofloxacin was prescribed. However, progressive shortness of breath and respiratory failure developed 48 h later after hospitalization. Emergent intubation was performed and he was transferred to the intensive care unit where oseltamivir (Tamiflu, Roche) 75 mg orally twice daily was given immediately. In the intensive care unit, cardiac catheterization revealed normal coronary arteries. However, a markedly elevated cardiac enzyme level (Troponin I level was up to 71.01 ng/ml), a positive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings and no coronary artery stenosis led to the diagnosis of acute myocarditis. Subsequent real-time polymerase chain reaction of endotracheal aspirates was positive for influenza B. His condition gradually improved and he was successfully weaned from the ventilator on day 22. He was discharged without prominent complications on day 35. CONCLUSION: Influenza B infection is not always a mild disease. Early detection, early administration of antiviral agents, appropriate antibiotics and best supportive care, is still the gold standard for patients such as the one reported. |
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spelling | pubmed-47007602016-01-06 Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B Chang, Hsu-Liang Hsu, Jui-Feng Tsai, Ying-Ming Lin, Shang-Yi Kuo, Hsuan-Fu Yang, Chih-Jen BMC Pulm Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Influenza B virus infection is generally considered to be mild and is rarely associated pulmonary cardiovascular involvement in adults. However fatal complications may occur. CASE PRESENTATION: A 43-year-old previously healthy Taiwanese male came to our emergency department due to high fever, chills, general malaise and myalgia for about 4 days. An influenza rapid test from a throat swab was negative. Chest radiography showed mild left lung infiltration and levofloxacin was prescribed. However, progressive shortness of breath and respiratory failure developed 48 h later after hospitalization. Emergent intubation was performed and he was transferred to the intensive care unit where oseltamivir (Tamiflu, Roche) 75 mg orally twice daily was given immediately. In the intensive care unit, cardiac catheterization revealed normal coronary arteries. However, a markedly elevated cardiac enzyme level (Troponin I level was up to 71.01 ng/ml), a positive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings and no coronary artery stenosis led to the diagnosis of acute myocarditis. Subsequent real-time polymerase chain reaction of endotracheal aspirates was positive for influenza B. His condition gradually improved and he was successfully weaned from the ventilator on day 22. He was discharged without prominent complications on day 35. CONCLUSION: Influenza B infection is not always a mild disease. Early detection, early administration of antiviral agents, appropriate antibiotics and best supportive care, is still the gold standard for patients such as the one reported. BioMed Central 2016-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4700760/ /pubmed/26728359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-015-0163-3 Text en © Chang et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Chang, Hsu-Liang Hsu, Jui-Feng Tsai, Ying-Ming Lin, Shang-Yi Kuo, Hsuan-Fu Yang, Chih-Jen Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B |
title | Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B |
title_full | Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B |
title_fullStr | Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B |
title_short | Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B |
title_sort | acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza b |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-015-0163-3 |
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