Anästhesie, Intensivtherapie, Notfallmedizin
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Anasth Intensivther Notfallmed · Jun 1989
Case Reports[Adult respiratory distress syndrome in legionella pneumonia--successful treatment with extracorporeal CO2 elimination procedures].
We report on successful treatment of an 46-year-old patient with ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome), caused by legionella-pneumophilia-pneumonia. The treatment with conventional artifical mechanical ventilation had failed. ⋯ Supported by antimicrobial therapy with Erythromycin and Rifampicin the lung function could be improved to "restitutio ad integrum". Changes in chest radiographs, clinical parameters of ventilation, gas exchange and haemodynamics as well as the results of sequential pulmonary studies are demonstrated and discussed.