Porcelain lung: calcification in severe Bordetella pertussis infection

Arch Dis Child. 2016 May;101(5):421. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-310204. Epub 2016 Feb 11.

Authors

Anusha Ganeshalingham¹, Brian J Anderson¹, Jane Zuccollo², David Davies-Payne³, John Beca¹

Affiliations

¹ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand.
³ Department of Paediatric Radiology, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

PMID: 26868038
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-310204

No abstract available

Keywords: Bordetella pertussis; Calcification; Extracorporeal membranous oxygenation; Intensive Care; Whooping cough.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bordetella pertussis / isolation & purification*
Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging
Calcinosis / microbiology*
Calcinosis / therapy
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Infant
Male
Radiography
Whooping Cough / diagnostic imaging
Whooping Cough / microbiology*
Whooping Cough / therapy