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Mucoviscidose: Späte Diagnose trotz typischer Klinik
- Source :
- DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 114:1566-1570
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2008.
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Abstract
- An 18-year-old girl was hospitalized because of a treatment-refractory broncho-pneumonia requiring artificial ventilation. She had been suffering from recurrent respiratory infection since the age of three years. Chest X-ray films demonstrated bronchiectasis: Pseudomonas, Klebsiella and Candida albicans were isolated from the respiratory tract. The correct diagnosis of the underlying disease had not previously been made. A sweat test, when aged 15 years, was borderline abnormal. Despite the application of all available therapeutic measures she died in cardiorespiratory failure from an overwhelming pulmonary infection. The typical clinical features and the findings at autopsy established the diagnosis of mucoviscidosis.
- Subjects :
- Artificial ventilation
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Bronchiectasis
Lung
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Respiratory infection
Autopsy
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Cystic fibrosis
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine
business
Sweat test
Respiratory tract
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14394413 and 00120472
- Volume :
- 114
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8cfd60682a443c69d9a0426bc74f3c62