title: A case of acute respiratory failure in pregnancy.
abstract: Influenza is usually a benign, self-limiting illness. Occasionally influenza may be complicated by pneumonia. There is some impairment of cell-mediated immunity in pregnancy so that influenza pneumonia in pregnancy may rapidly progress to acute respiratory failure and other multisystem dysfunction. We present a case of influenza pneumonia in the third trimester of pregnancy in a normal host leading to acute respiratory failure which had a favorable outcome following standard supportive therapy.
authors.affiliation: St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Schatz
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy