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Pregnant patients with varicella infections have an increased risk of life threatening pulmonary complications. Prompt diagnosis and aggressive early therapy with acyclovir are important aspects of treating varicella pneumonia. The stress of severe hypoxia usually necessitates delivery by cesarean
Varicella pneumonia is the most common complication of chickenpox and it also has the highest mortality. A retrospective study was carried out on 10 patients with varicella pneumonia over a period of one year. Seven of the 10 patients with varicella pneumonia had a history of smoking. The majority
The aim of the investigation was to determine the patterns of cerebral involvement on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in post-varicella encephalitis. Four children between the ages of 2 and 11 years presented over a 5-year period with a diagnosis of post-varicella
Three adults previously in good health developed pulmonary oedema during chickenpox. Severe hypoxemia required mechanical ventilation. All patients recovered without extensive pulmonary sequela on the first month pulmonary functional test. The severity of adult chickenpox requires hospitalization
A case of a 30 year-old man presenting with severe systemic chickenpox with refractory hypoxemia, central nervous system vasculitis and anuric renal failure is described. Ambulance transportation and support using veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were necessary until the patient
BACKGROUND
Retrospective study of the varicella pneumonia in adults, in order to know incidence, environmental and clinical characteristics and treatments of patients with this diagnosis during the last 9 years in Toledo.
METHODS
Twenty-one adult patients with the diagnosis of varicella pneumonia
Varicella is a cosmopolitan communicable disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) characterized by papulovesicular rash and fever. Management of fever and pruritus and prevention of bacterial infection are the main aspects of treatment. Severe complications and death may occur in pregnancy, in
Primary infection with varicella-zoster virus usually is a mild, self-limiting childhood illness. However, certain rare but potentially life-threatening complications can be associated with the disease. Adults and immunosuppressed patients are at increased risk for these events. We report a case of
BACKGROUND
The most common and most serious complication of varicella (chickenpox) in adults is pneumonia, which can lead to severe respiratory failure. Varicella pneumonia is associated with considerable morbidity and even death.
OBJECTIVE
To summarize our experience with varicella pneumonia in
OBJECTIVE
Retrospective study of the epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic data corresponding to adult patients with chickenpox pneumonia that needed admission in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the last 10 years.
METHODS
The diagnosis was established through clinicoradiological
BACKGROUND: The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the clinical, laboratory, and radiological features of all adult patients with varicella-zoster virus pneumonia (VZVP) treated in our departments during the last 5 years. Important therapeutic and evolutionary features are also
Varicella pneumonia is a rare but serious and occasionally fatal complication of infection with varicellazoster. A 40-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with fever, eruptions, dyspnea, and severe hypoxemia. A chest X-ray film showed diffuse nodular infiltrative shadows in both lung fields.
BACKGROUND
In the adult, the primary infection by the varicella-zoster virus acquires an unusual severity due to several complications, the most frequent of them being pneumonia. We study the main characteristics of nine patients diagnosed of pneumonia varicellosa.
METHODS
Clinical, therapeutic and
OBJECTIVE
To study the clinical, therapeutic, and evolutive features in 25 patients with the diagnosis of varicella pneumonia (VP) in the last 15 years.
METHODS
The diagnosis was established by clinical and radiologic criteria in the course of varicella infection. The antecedents of smoking habit,
The effect of early acyclovir therapy on the course of varicella pneumonia in previously healthy adults was assessed. Medical records from five university-affiliated medical centers were retrospectively reviewed; included were all immunocompetent adults with a clinical diagnosis of primary