Complicated Varicella Infection at 8-year-old Boy with Pulmonary Agenesis.
BACKGROUND
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BACKGROUND
Varicella or chickenpox is highly contagious, childhood infectious disease caused by primary infection with varicella - zoster virus from the herpes family of viruses. Usually it has a mild clinical course, rarely with described complication, mostly affecting respiratory tract and rarely the central nervous system.


METHODS
The case present 8 year old boy hospitalized eighth day of disease with clinical pictures of varicella complication. Upon receipt tachydyspnea, high fever, tachycardia, hypotensive with positive findings on lung auscultation in the sense of pneumonia. Extremely high values of non-specific inflammatory parameters are implied on bacterial infection which is treated using triple antimicrobial therapy and antiviral. A detailed clinical, laboratory and radiological evaluation is determined of clinical disease complication under a picture of MODS that required prolonged multidisciplinary treatment in ICU.


CONCLUSIONS
The disease had a favorable clinical outcome in terms of training completely without consequences but, with the detected congenital absence lower lobe of right lung and transposition of the brachiocephalic trunk.
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo , Bosnia Herzegovina.
Meliha
M
Hadzovic-Cengic
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo , Bosnia Herzegovina.
Rusmir
R
Baljic
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo , Bosnia Herzegovina.
Amir
A
Hadzic
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo , Bosnia Herzegovina.
Enra
E
Lukovac
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo , Bosnia Herzegovina.
Snjezana
S
Mehanic
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo , Bosnia Herzegovina.
Aida
A
Ahmetspahic-Begic
MODS; chickenpox; pneumonia; pulmonary agenesis