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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Park, Se Jin
• Pai, Ki Soo
• Kim, Ah Reum
• Lee, Jang Hoon
• Shin, Jae Il
• Lee, Soo Young

Titel

Fulminant and Fatal Multiple Organ Failure in a 12-Year-Old Boy With Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection

Ist Teil von

• Allergy, 2012, Asthma & Immunology Research, 4(1), , pp.55-57

Ort / Verlag

Korea (South): The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) is a unique pathogen that causes not only pulmonary but also extrapulmonary manifestations that must be rapidly diagnosed. A 12-year-old boy, with no relevant medical history, presented with fever, severe epigastric pain, and vomiting. Laboratory findings showed fulminant and cholestatic hepatitis, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, acute kidney injury, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, acute myocardial infarction, and rhabdomyolysis. His clinical condition rapidly deteriorated during intubation and continuous renal replacement therapy. Despite intensive treatment, he did not recover. We report a case of fulminant and fatal multiple organ failure in a previously healthy boy with Mp infection, describing the possible pathomechanisms of multiple organ failure involved in the disease.