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Outcome of pulmonary function in Lemierre's disease-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Cholette JM, Caserta M, Hardy D, Connolly HV

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. Jill_Cholette@urmc.rochester.edu

Pulmonary function in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) survivors typically returns to normal with the exception of a persistent reduction in carbon monoxide diffusion capacity (DL(co)). Septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein, (Lemierre's syndrome or postanginal sepsis) is a well-described, albeit uncommon cause of ARDS in which metastatic pulmonary thromboemboli precipitate respiratory failure requiring ventilatory support. We describe convalescent pulmonary function in two survivors of Lemierre's disease-associated ARDS, suggesting that the subset of Lemierre's syndrome induced ARDS survivors have an excellent long-term pulmonary prognosis.

Published 2 April 2007 in Pediatr Pulmonol, 42(4): 389-92.
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