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Acute respiratory distress syndrome complicating typhoid fever
P N Agrawal1, R M Ramanathan, D Gupta
1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences
|February 8, 2000
Abstract:
We report a case of a young female patient with typhoid fever whose clinical course was complicated by hypotension, thrombocytopenia, encephalopathy and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). She recovered with prompt mechanical ventilatory support. ARDS in typhoid fever has generally proved to be fatal in reported cases.