Delayed onset adult respiratory distress syndrome in babesiosis

Chest. 1994 Oct;106(4):1299-301. doi: 10.1378/chest.106.4.1299.

Abstract

Reported herein is a second case of a patient who developed adult respiratory distress syndrome secondary to babesiosis. The features of acute lung injury after babesiosis will be described.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Babesiosis / complications*
  • Babesiosis / drug therapy
  • Clindamycin / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Quinine / therapeutic use
  • Radiography
  • Respiration, Artificial
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / parasitology*
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / therapy
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Clindamycin
  • Quinine