TY - JOUR
T1 - Pulmonary Function After Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome Associated with Legionnaires’ Disease Pneumonia
AU - Shaw, Robert A.
AU - Whitcomb, Michael E.
AU - Schonfeld, Steven A.
PY - 1981/5
Y1 - 1981/5
N2 - Two patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by Legionnaires’ disease were treated with erythromycin lactobionate, and they survived. Sequential pulmonary function studies and chest roentgenograms were obtained in both patients. Despite previous suggestions that severe fibrosis might complicate the recovery of patients with this disease, both patients had normal lung volumes and only minimal reduction in single-breath carbon monoxide diffusing capacity ten weeks after the onset of the disease. Thus, pulmonary function after ARDS caused by Legionnaires’ disease seems to be only minimally disturbed.
AB - Two patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by Legionnaires’ disease were treated with erythromycin lactobionate, and they survived. Sequential pulmonary function studies and chest roentgenograms were obtained in both patients. Despite previous suggestions that severe fibrosis might complicate the recovery of patients with this disease, both patients had normal lung volumes and only minimal reduction in single-breath carbon monoxide diffusing capacity ten weeks after the onset of the disease. Thus, pulmonary function after ARDS caused by Legionnaires’ disease seems to be only minimally disturbed.
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U2 - 10.1001/archinte.1981.00340060049012
DO - 10.1001/archinte.1981.00340060049012
M3 - Article
C2 - 7235782
AN - SCOPUS:0019424185
SN - 0003-9926
VL - 141
SP - 741
EP - 742
JO - Archives of internal medicine
JF - Archives of internal medicine
IS - 6
ER -