The American journal of medicine, 1984-12, Vol.77 (6), p.1105-1107
1984
Volltextzugriff (PDF)
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Ocular and pericardial involvement in Legionnaires' disease
- Ist Teil von
- The American journal of medicine, 1984-12, Vol.77 (6), p.1105-1107
- Ort / Verlag
- New York, NY: Elsevier Inc
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1984
- Quelle
- Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Legionnaires' disease can exhibit protean extrapulmonary manifestations. Pericardial involvement is rare and has been described in three case reports. A patient is described with Legionnaires' disease and pericardial and ocular involvement, an entity that has not been reported previously. This patient was successfully treated with intravenous erythromycin with resolution of his pericardia! effusion and ophthalmologic findings.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0002-9343eISSN: 1555-7162DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(84)90196-7Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_75809461
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Adult, Bacterial diseases, Bacterial endocarditis, myocarditis and pericarditis. Bacterial diseases of the aorta, limb vessels and lymphatic vessels, Biological and medical sciences, Erythromycin - therapeutic use, Eye Diseases - etiology, Human bacterial diseases, Humans, Infectious diseases, Legionnaires' Disease - complications, Legionnaires' Disease - drug therapy, Legionnaires' Disease - microbiology, Male, Medical sciences, Pericarditis - etiology, Serologic Tests