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Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication of different severe lung diseases that need to be treated with mechanical ventilation in newborn infants. However, VAP due to Legionella pneumophila infection is rarely reported in the literature, especially in extremely low-birth-weight...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jing, Qiu, Ru-Xin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36140654
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12092253
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description Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication of different severe lung diseases that need to be treated with mechanical ventilation in newborn infants. However, VAP due to Legionella pneumophila infection is rarely reported in the literature, especially in extremely low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants. Lung ultrasound (LUS) has been used in the diagnosis of neonatal pneumonia, but there is no literature on the ultrasound characteristics of Legionella-VAP in ELBW infants. This paper introduced the typical LUS findings of Legionella-VAP in ELBW infants, which mainly includes severe and large-area lung consolidation and atelectasis in the bilateral lungs; whether there is blood supply in the consolidated area has an important reference value for predicting the prognosis. In addition, the treatment and management experience were also introduced together, thereby helping us to deepen the understanding of the disease and avoid missed diagnoses.
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spelling pubmed-94976152022-09-23 Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant Liu, Jing Qiu, Ru-Xin Diagnostics (Basel) Interesting Images Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication of different severe lung diseases that need to be treated with mechanical ventilation in newborn infants. However, VAP due to Legionella pneumophila infection is rarely reported in the literature, especially in extremely low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants. Lung ultrasound (LUS) has been used in the diagnosis of neonatal pneumonia, but there is no literature on the ultrasound characteristics of Legionella-VAP in ELBW infants. This paper introduced the typical LUS findings of Legionella-VAP in ELBW infants, which mainly includes severe and large-area lung consolidation and atelectasis in the bilateral lungs; whether there is blood supply in the consolidated area has an important reference value for predicting the prognosis. In addition, the treatment and management experience were also introduced together, thereby helping us to deepen the understanding of the disease and avoid missed diagnoses. MDPI 2022-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9497615/ /pubmed/36140654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12092253 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
title Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
title_full Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
title_fullStr Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
title_full_unstemmed Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
title_short Lung Ultrasound Monitoring of Legionella Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
title_sort lung ultrasound monitoring of legionella ventilator-associated pneumonia in an extremely low-birth-weight infant
topic Interesting Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36140654
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12092253
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