title: Life-threatening Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
abstract: Pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae is common, but it is rarely life-threatening. A case is reported in a previously healthy adult whose illness was severe enough to require treatment with intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) for 14 days and which resolved after treatment with corticosteroids.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000628:therapy*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration