[Extrarespiratory manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection]

An Esp Pediatr. 1984 Aug;21(2):141-6.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Three patients with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, documented by CF antibody titers greater than 128, developed severe extrapulmonary manifestations. Two of them had a Stevens-Johnson syndrome seven and two days after the beginning of respiratory symptoms and the third a demyelinating polyradicyloneuropathy three weeks later. One of the patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and serious respiratory involvement also had hemolytic anemia associated with a cold agglutinins titer of 128. Authors determined lymphocytes subpopulations in one of the cases of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and in the patient with polyradiculoneuropathy. In both of them they found a reduced number of T-helper lymphocytes, and in the patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome an increase in suppressor T cells was also demonstrated.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / complications*
  • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / immunology
  • Polyradiculopathy / etiology*
  • Skin Diseases, Infectious / etiology*
  • Skin Diseases, Infectious / pathology
  • T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / analysis
  • T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / analysis