Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
An unusual non-resolving community-acquired pneumonia |
| Authors: |
Andrea Zappalà, Silvia Puglisi, Ilaria Di Cataldo, Alessio Trombetta, Federica Lo Bello, Alfio Proietto, Irene Coppolino, Venerino Poletti, Gaetano Caramori |
| Source: |
Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, Vol 109, Iss 2, Pp 1-6 (2021) |
| Publisher Information: |
Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, 2021. |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Medicine
LCC:Biology (General) |
| Subject Terms: |
non-resolving pneumonia, autoimmune pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, systemic lupus erythematosus, acute lupic pneumonitis., Medicine, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| More Details: |
We present the case of a 61-year-old male that was admitted to our Unit of Pulmonology for a suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. However, despite many courses of empiric wide spectrum antibiotic treatment, the respiratory failure persisted and new bilateral migratory pulmonary opacities and serosal effusions appeared. The most common causes of non-resolving CAP were excluded and the combination of thrombocytopenia, autoimmune hemolysis, pleural and pericardial effusions in a patient with antinuclear antibodies ANA at a titer of 1:160 is diagnostic for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1828-6550 |
| Relation: |
https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/APMB/article/view/3207; https://doaj.org/toc/1828-6550 |
| DOI: |
10.13129/1828-6550/APMB.109.2.2021.CCS1 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/66de7e2a0cf846f886592ad2ba68fa89 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.66de7e2a0cf846f886592ad2ba68fa89 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
