Severe community-acquired pneumonia with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to primary infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae in a previously healthy adult.
Community-acquired pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with a benign clinical course. Severe, life-threatening pneumonia is rare and occurs only in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of severe pneumonia complicated by acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to primary infection with C. pneumoniae in a previously healthy 46-year-old woman.
Balis
Evangelos
E
Ninth Pulmonary Clinic, General Thoracic Hospital Sotiria, Athens, Greece.
Boufas
Anastasios
A
Iliopoulos
Irineos
I
Legakis
Nicholaos J
NJ
Zerva
Loukia
L
D000328:Adult; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000150:complications*; D016993:Chlamydophila pneumoniae; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology