Legionnaire's disease complicating pregnancy: a case report with intrauterine fetal demise.
OBJECTIVE
Legionnaire's disease complicating pregnancy is an unusual event that can seriously compromise both the mother and the fetus.


METHODS
We describe one case of such association, with an unfavourable intrauterine fetal outcome, secondary to acute placental insufficiency, related to infection.


CONCLUSIONS
It is important in these high risk pregnancies complicated by acute pneumonia to take into consideration the diagnosis, as early as possible, and the appropriate treatment or the careful monitoring of fetal wellbeing.
Vimercati
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Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Bari, Italy.
Greco
P
P
Bettocchi
S
S
Resta
L
L
Selvaggi
L
L
D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D005311:Fetal Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D016952:Legionella pneumophila / Q000276:immunology; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D010920:Placenta / Q000473:pathology; D010927:Placental Insufficiency / Q000150:complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial