Severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by human adenovirus B21: Report on 2 cases and literature review.

Pfortmüller, Carmen; Barbani, Maria Teresa; Schefold, Jörg Christian; Hage, Elias; Heim, Albert; Zimmerli, Stefan (2019). Severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by human adenovirus B21: Report on 2 cases and literature review. Journal of critical care, 51, pp. 99-104. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jcrc.2019.02.019

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Severe pneumonia and ARDS caused by human adenovirus B21 infections (HAdV-B21) is a rare, but a devastating disease with rapid progression to multiorgan failure and death. However, only a few cases were reported so far. Infections appear associated with increased disease severity and higher mortality in infected critically ill patients. Possible factors contributing to infection are underlying psychiatric disease resulting in institutionalization of respective patients, and polytoxicomania. Controlled data on the therapy of severe adenovirus infections are lacking and remains experimental. In conclusion, data on HAdV-B21 infections causing severe pneumonia or ARDS are scarce. Controlled clinical trials on the therapy of adenovirus pneumonia are non existent and thus there is no established therapy so far. ICU physicians should be aware of this potentially devastating disease and further studies are needed.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Review Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Infectiology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases > Infection Serology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > Clinic of Intensive Care

UniBE Contributor:

Pfortmüller, Carmen, Barbani, Maria Teresa, Schefold, Jörg Christian, Zimmerli, Stephan

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0883-9441

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Annelies Luginbühl

Date Deposited:

23 Apr 2019 11:10

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:31

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.jcrc.2019.02.019

PubMed ID:

30798099

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Critical illness HAdV-B21 Respiratory failure Viral 21B

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.127402

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/127402

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