A fulminant pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae – Case report and literature review

Fulminant pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae [MP] is quite rare even though there is a high prevalence of Mycoplasma species infection in the general population. We report a case of an atypical pneumonia with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in a young fema...

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Autores principales: Unni, Athira, Hidayathulla, P.K., Kavitha, K.P., Paloth, Mohammed Niyas, Nair, Priyanka Raveendranadhan, Kumar P, Jayesh, Radhakrishnan, Chandni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9271957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35832783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01552
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Sumario:Fulminant pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae [MP] is quite rare even though there is a high prevalence of Mycoplasma species infection in the general population. We report a case of an atypical pneumonia with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in a young female and the clinical challenges encountered along with the current literature review.

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