psittacosis/hypoxia

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical, radiological and biological features of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia. METHODS A pneumonia outbreak occurred in a healthy middle-aged population working in a poultry slaughterhouse. Systematic serology (2 samples at 5 weeks intervals) provided the diagnosis of

BACKGROUND Chlamydia psittaci infection typically causes a mild influenza-like illness in humans. However, during pregnancy, this disease may present with severe headache, hypoxemia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, hepatic dysfunction, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Limited reports of

Three familial cases of psittacosis are reported. The first case was a 46-year-old woman, the second case, her 18-year-old daughter. Both of them often visited the house of the third case, a 49-year-old women, who was the elder sister of case 1 and who took care of the chick of a budgerigar which

A 52-year-old man was admitted to another hospital with complaints of fever and dyspnea. Chest roentgenogram revealed bilateral widespread infiltrative opacities, and laboratory examinations showed severe hypoxia, hepatic injury and acute renal failure. In addition, hemosputum and eruption appeared,

Diagnosis of acute, primary extensive pneumopathies provoking severe hypoxemia is particularly difficult, became of the non-specific radiological findings, resulting from the oedema and associated alveolar collapse, and the fact that the clinical picture and biological test results are not very

Severe respiratory failure is an uncommon manifestation of psittacosis. We describe a patient with psittacosis who developed severe respiratory failure and required artificial ventilation. We also review 11 cases reported in the English-language literature over the past 30 years. A history of

A previously healthy 40-year-old woman was admitted with severe dyspnea, cough and slight fever. Chest X-ray film revealed bilateral widespread opaque infiltration with ground glass shadows around it. The laboratory examination showed moderate hepatic and muscular injury with disseminated