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Novel complication of an emerging disease: Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess syndrome as a cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Source :
- Clinics & Practice; 2018, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p25-27, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Klebsiella pneumoniae is an increasingly recognized cause of a unique invasive syndrome manifesting as pyogenic liver abscess and hematogenous extrahepatic dissemination to a variety of sites, including the lung. Originally described only in Asia, this entity has now been reported across continents and ethnicities. Intrathoracic complications of invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess syndrome (IKPLAS) have been characterized sporadically but have not been the subject of an all-encompassing investigation. Review of the English-language literature yields no reports of the acute respiratory distress syndrome as a consequence of IKPLAS. Herein we report what, to our knowledge, is the first such description. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- KLEBSIELLA pneumoniae
LIVER abscesses
RESPIRATORY distress syndrome
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20397283
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Clinics & Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 127795791
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4081/cp.2018.1021