[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.
Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, México, D.F.
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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.