Clinical review of eight patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) even in the absence of superinfection, and this condition requires mechanical ventilation. We describe herein the characteristics and outcomes of 8 patients with this association hospitalized in a French teaching hospital between 1997 and 2006.

Keywords::

• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• ARDS
• multiple organ failure
• ICU
• nosocomial pneumonia

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