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9088304

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-4-29
pubmed:abstractText
A 19-year-old woman was admitted with acute severe asthma in her eleventh week of pregnancy. Despite vigorous therapy, severe hypoventilation and hypoxemia persisted with mechanical ventilation. Termination of pregnancy resulted in dramatic improvement in airflow. Her course was complicated by pneumonia, barotrauma, and atelectasis accompanying her moribund state. Although she immediately improved following abortion (within 2 hr, peak airway pressure fell from > 70 to 38 cmH2O, without change in plateau pressure), superimposed morbidities improved more slowly, and the patient made a complete recovery. The mechanism accounting for this observation is unknown but the rapid improvement following abortion suggests that increased bronchomotor tone predominated inflammatory changes in causing flow limitation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0277-0903
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
34
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
169-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Reversal of intractable acute severe asthma by first-trimester termination of pregnancy.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Mount Sinai Services-Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York 11373-1329, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports