Acute respiratory distress syndrome complicating typhoid fever.
We report a case of a young female patient with typhoid fever whose clinical course was complicated by hypotension, thrombocytopenia, encephalopathy and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). She recovered with prompt mechanical ventilatory support. ARDS in typhoid fever has generally proved to be fatal in reported cases.
Agrawal
P N
PN
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Ramanathan
R M
RM
Gupta
D
D
Behera
D
D
Jindal
S K
SK
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000150:complications*