Miliary tuberculosis presenting as acute respiratory failure: treatment by membrane oxygenator and ventricle pump.
A 58-year-old woman with high fever, dyspnea, rapidly progressive hypoxemia and opacification of the lung fields presented the clinical picture of catastrophic respiratory failure. Extracorporeal support of oxygenation using a membrane oxygenator and a new ventricle pump was initially successful. At autopsy, miliary tuberculosis was found to be the cause of this "shock lung like" syndrome.
D001243:Assisted Circulation / Q000379:methods; D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D010107:Oxygenators, Membrane; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000473:pathology