title: [Severe forms of mycoplasma pneumonia (author's transl)].
abstract: Respiratory tract infections with mycoplasma can cause severe infiltrating pneumonia (with pleuritis), associated with marked inflammatory reactions (maximal E.S.R., high leucocytosis with shift to the left and marked alpha 2-proteinaemia). Serial measurements of cold-agglutinin titres as well as complement-fixation reaction to Mycoplasma pneumoniae will confirm the diagnosis. Atypical forms of pneumonia can also be documented in that they respond only to erythromycin and extrapulmonary complications accompany the disease, giving them a protean character. In two such patients there was the clinical picture of pneumonia with high fever and marked inflammatory reaction, associated with anicteric hepatitis. In one there was also thoracic lymphadenitis, myositis and rash, in the other a meta- and post-infectious polyarthritis.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000373:Agglutinins / Q000032:analysis; D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D003450:Cryoglobulins; D004917:Erythromycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005076:Exanthema / Q000150:complications; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009220:Myositis / Q000150:complications; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000373:Agglutinins; D003450:Cryoglobulins; C029443:cold agglutinins; D004917:Erythromycin
vernacular_title: Schwere Verlaufsformen von Mykoplasma-Pneumonien.