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The 2018 measles outbreak in Israel has affected > 2000 patients in Jerusalem. The aim of the study was to describe clinical features and complications of hospitalized measles patients in Jerusalem, as related to age group and risk factors.All patients We reviewed the charts of 19 patients with the diagnosis of measles who were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit for respiratory failure requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. Patients studied were admitted during the period June 1989 to June 1990. The mean age was 19 months
Measles pneumonitis, as well as encephalitis, is the most important complication associated with mortality in measles. Many medications including steroids and vitamin A have been applied to pediatric measles pneumonitis. However, the efficacy of such medication has not yet been established. This
It has been reported that measles-associated pneumonia is easily complicated with fatal respiratory failure. During the 6 months from January to June 1998, we treated three young patients with measles-associated pneumonia who had previously been healthy. Their chest X-ray and CT examinations
OBJECTIVE
A recent measles epidemic in France incited us to report and describe measles cases requiring hospitalization, to raise the awareness of health professionals on under-diagnosis and frequent complications of this viral disease.
METHODS
We carried out a retrospective and epidemiologic study
The clinical features, chest radiographs and computed tomographic (CT) images were evaluated in 11 cases with serologically proved adult measles complicated with pneumonia (10 were previously healthy and one had sarcoidosis). Pneumonia appeared during the rash period in all cases. Respiratory
Background Between 2017 and 2018, Greece experienced a measles outbreak, affecting >3000 patients, most of which were unvaccinated. Measles-associated pneumonia (MAP) is the most common serious compilation of the disease, but very few recent reports regarding its presentation are available.
Six healthy children, 5 boys and 1 girl aged from 13 months to 4 years had a severe measles bronchopneumonia. The end result is established chronic airflow obstruction. On a background of fairly severe respiratory failure there were paroxysms of breathlessness with fever, wheezes and cyanosis which
During a community outbreak of measles, 10 patients aged 11 through 19 were hospitalized with prominent pulmonary infiltrates and clinical manifestations of high fever and rash. Diagnoses of atypical measles were confirmed by hemagglutination-inhibition and complement-fixation antibody studies.
Introduction: Measles is a contagious disease that re-emerged among young adults as a consequence of suboptimal vaccination coverage. Since in the pre-vaccination era measles affected mainly children, little is known about
A 33 year-old female was admitted with facial, trunk and limb eruptions, conjunctiva intrahemorrhage, Koplik's spots in the pharynx and severe hypoxemia after fever and upper respiratory tract symptom. Infiltrative shadow of the whole right lung was seen on chest radiography. Fine crackles were seen
The clinical features of pulmonary complications were evaluated in 15 patients with adult measles diagnosed by clinical and serologic investigations. Of those 15 patients, 12 were admitted because of high fever, sever anorexia and dyspnea. Almost all patients were found to have thrombocytopenia,
We studied the role of autochthonous microflora from body cavities in the development of tissue hypoxia and instability of cell membranes. In children with tuberculosis dysbiosis manifested in nonspecific quantitative changes in the intestinal microflora and the presence of coxsackievirus antigens
A 40-year-old British man presented to the emergency department for the second time in 10 days following a 2-week holiday in Thailand with malaise, bilateral conjunctivitis and a morbilliform rash. He had previously seen his general practitioner and ophthalmology and was diagnosed with
BACKGROUND
Despite tremendous progress made toward elimination, measles continues to pose a great threat to the health of children in developing countries. The objective of this study was to summarize and analyze the clinical characteristics and treatment experience of serious complications of