NYMC Faculty Publications
Novel Complication of an Emerging Disease: Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver Abscess Syndrome as a Cause of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Journal Title
Clinics and Practice
First Page
1021
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 2018
Department
Medicine
Abstract
Klebsiella pneumoniae is an increasingly recognized cause of a unique invasive syndrome manifesting as pyogenic liver abscess and hematogenous extrahepatic dissemination to a variety of sites, including the lung. Originally described only in Asia, this entity has now been reported across continents and ethnicities. Intrathoracic complications of invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess syndrome (IKPLAS) have been characterized sporadically but have not been the subject of an all-encompassing investigation. Review of the English-language literature yields no reports of the acute respiratory distress syndrome as a consequence of IKPLAS. Herein we report what, to our knowledge, is the first such description.
Recommended Citation
Gupta, A., Bhatti, S., Leytin, A., & Epelbaum, O. (2018). Novel Complication of an Emerging Disease: Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver Abscess Syndrome as a Cause of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Clinics and Practice, 8 (1), 1021. https://doi.org/10.4081/cp.2018.1021
