[A 12-year-old girl with acute respiratory disease with pneumonia caused by adenovirus type 7].
We have encountered a 12-year-old girl with acute respiratory disease including pneumonia caused by adenovirus type 7. While being followed-up for bronchial asthma, she developed this disease with dyspnea accompanied by high fever, pharyngalgia and a dry cough subsequent to a slight fever. Adenovirus type 7 was separated and identified from the pharyngeal smear. Additionally, perfusion scintigraphy of the lungs presented evidence of interstitial pneumonia. with these findings and the clinical course put together, this case was diagnosed as having acute respiratory disease with pneumonia caused by adenovirus type 7. Thereafter, perfusion scintigraphy of the lungs continued showing interstitial shadows, which suggested the presence of severe sequlae of the lung. Formerly the separation rate of adenovirus type 7 was low in Japan, but the rate has tended to increase in cities in recent years. Cases presenting such acute, severe respiratory symptoms are expected to increase in the future, and clinically we consider to be our case important enough to be reported.
Wada
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Department of Pediatrics, Kashiwa Hospital, Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan.
Kitajima
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Kubo
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000258:Adenovirus Infections, Human / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000821:virology*