Medical treatment failure and complete left pneumonectomy after Legionella pneumophila pneumonia in a bone marrow transplant recipient

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Sep;31(9):979-81. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31825cb28f.

Abstract

Legionnaire disease (LD) is infrequently considered in the differential diagnoses for hospital- and community-acquired pneumonia in pediatrics. We report a case of Legionnaire disease in a 19-year-old male with aplastic anemia after bone marrow transplant, who was being treated in a children's hospital. Severe, refractory pulmonary disease necessitated pneumonectomy to control the infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anemia, Aplastic / surgery
  • Anemia, Refractory / surgery*
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Legionella pneumophila / isolation & purification*
  • Legionnaires' Disease / drug therapy
  • Legionnaires' Disease / etiology
  • Legionnaires' Disease / surgery*
  • Male
  • Opportunistic Infections
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Treatment Failure