A case of acute respiratory failure in pregnancy.
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.
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St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, USA.
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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