NYMC Faculty Publications

Novel Complication of an Emerging Disease: Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver Abscess Syndrome as a Cause of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

DOI

10.4081/cp.2018.1021

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.

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