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Varicella Pneumonia: Case Report and Review of a Potentially Lethal Complication of a Common Disease.
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- Primary Varicella Pneumonia in an Adult With Robust Immune Status: A Case Report.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
- Varicella Pneumonia with Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism as Rare Presentations for Male: Case Report.Avicenna journal of medicine · 2025Article
- Varicella challenges: A case of respiratory tract complications in an elderly patient.Narra J · 2024Article
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- Opportunistic etiological agents causing lung infections: emerging need to transform lung-targeted delivery.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Viral pulmonary infection in pregnancy - Including COVID-19, SARS, influenza A, and varicella.Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology · 2022Review
- A Modern Perspective on Vaccinating Healthcare Service Providers in India: A Narrative Review.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2022Review
- Varicella pneumonia masquerading as interstitial lung disease: Non-specific interstitial pneumonitis.SAGE open medical case reports · 2021Article
- Varicella-zoster virus post-exposure management and prophylaxis: A review.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
Varicella zoster virus causes varicella (chickenpox). It can be reactivated endogenously many years later to cause herpes zoster (shingles). Although varicella is usually a benign disease in healthy children, it resulted in over 11 000 hospitalizations and over 100 deaths every year, in all ages, in the United States. Morbidity was considerably worse in older teenagers and adults. Between 5% and 15% of cases of adult chickenpox will produce some form of pulmonary illness. Progression to pneumonia risk factors include pregnancy, age, smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and immunosuppression. Typically, pulmonary symptoms occur 1 to 6 days after varicella zoster infection. They often include cough, fever, and dyspnea. Treatment is a 7-day course of intravenous acyclovir for varicella pneumonia. Early intervention may modify the course of this complication. This review illustrates practical features with a case of a 34-year-old female with severe varicella pneumonia. Despite the lack of significant past medical history and absence of immunosuppression, her pneumonia worsened and by using continuous positive airway pressure mask, intubation was avoided. More important, the radiographic progression of severe varicella pneumonia is shown. This highlights how a common disease of varicella can progress in an adult and manifest with significant organ malfunction.
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