[Pneumonia caused by measles: description of a clinical case of giant cell pneumonia in a non-immunosuppressed adolescent patient].
Measles pneumonia is the most frequent complications associated with mortality in this infection. There are two types, one corresponds to the giant-cells pneumonia and the other one to lung superinfection after measles infection. The first one has been occurred in immunosuppressed patients, without rash. We reported a measles pneumonia case in a previously healthy adolescent girl who had a fatal pneumonia by giant cells demonstrated by open lung biopsy. The review of the literature showed that this is very unusual in normal population.
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Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, México, D.F.
Pasquel-García
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D015726:Giant Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008457:Measles / Q000150:complications*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
Neumonía por sarampión: descripción de un caso clínico de neumonía de células gigantes en una paciente adolescente no inmunosuprimida.