title: [A 76-year-old dog owner with fever and dyspnea].
abstract: A 76-year-old female patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented with dyspnea, fever and productive coughing. The chest X-ray revealed upper lobe pneumonia. Intravenous antibiotic therapy with moxifloxacine was initiated but soon afterwards the patient developed septic shock with hypotension, acute respiratory and renal failure. Pressure-controlled ventilation, continuous veno-venous hemodialysis and administration of catecholamines were initiated but the patient died 22 h after hospitalization due to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Microbiology of blood cultures revealed Pasteurella multocida which was probably transmitted through close contact with the pet dog.
authors: Abteilung für Internistische Intensivmedizin, Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Schönebeck GmbH, Schönebeck, Deutschland. m.juech@lungenklinik-lostau.de
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Jüch
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Böttcher-Lorenz
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Gross
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission*; D004285:Dogs; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010326:Pasteurella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission*; D016979:Pasteurella multocida