Severe measles-associated pneumonia treated with assisted ventilation.
Measles-associated pneumonia, which was severe enough to require mechanical ventilation, caused a mortality of 64%. The main indications for special respiratory care were severe infection and hypoxaemia. Complications of the disease occurred in 78% of the patients. The commonest were anaemia, enteritis and cardiac failure, and they contributed to the grave prognosis. Viral pneumonia was present in most of the patients who died; superinfection was rare. The characteristics of measles virus was present in 30% and of adenovirus in no less that 40%.
D000258:Adenovirus Infections, Human / Q000150:complications; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000150:complications*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D011023:Pneumonia, Staphylococcal / Q000150:complications; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000150:complications; D012121:Respiration, Artificial