Drugs & pneumonia
Drugs  Citations

Bland JD, Lilleyman JS.  Fatal pneumonia associated with two viruses in a child with lymphoblastic leukaemia.Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1982 Jan 9;284(6309):82. No abstract available. PMID: 6797664

Yoshii Y, Ayabe T, Yoshitake H, Honda K, Nakamura I, Yokoyama T, Tsutumi H.   [An autopsy case of interstitial pneumonia associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia]  Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi. 1981 Feb;19(2):131-6. Japanese. No abstract available.PMID: 6965252 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Chapnick EK, Gradon JD, Kim YD, Narvios A, Gerard P, Till M, Sepkowitz DV.   Fatal measles pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient--case report.Clin Infect Dis. 1992 Aug;15(2):377-9. No abstract available.PMID: 1520778 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Martin LT, Counahan R, Tait R, Cosgrove JF.  Fatal measles giant cell pneumonia.Ir Med J. 1982 Jul;75(7):252-3. No abstract available.PMID: 7129845 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Paine TF Jr.  Letter: Possible adverse effect of prednisone in SSPE.N Engl J Med. 1974 Jun 6;290(23):1326. No abstract available.PMID: 4827637

Siegel MM, Walter TK, Ablin AR.  Measles pneumonia in childhood leukemia.Pediatrics. 1977 Jul;60(1):38-40.PMID: 267267

Sobonya RE, Hiller FC, Pingleton W, Watanabe I.  Fatal measles (rubeola) pneumonia in adults.Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1978 Jul;102(7):366-71. PMID: 580870 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Fatal measles (rubeola) pneumonia, confirmed by viral culture and electron microscopy, occurred in a previously healthy 19-year-old man. Autopsy disclosed measles pneumonia but no recognizable disease that would predispose to such an infection. However, the prolonged course of the measles infection and very low levels of serum antibodies to measles indicate that an immune deficient state existed. Nearly all other adults dying of measles pneumonia have had impairment of the immune system, typically due to a lymphatic or hematologic malignant neoplasm treated with chemotherapy. An immunodeficient state may be a precondition for death from measles pneumonia in adults. Enlargement of air spaces with fibrosis in the anterior portions of both lungs is suspected to be due to tissue necrosis and high mechanical ventilatory pressures.

Szajner-Milart I, Pakula J.  [Giant-cell pneumonia during measles in a leukemic child]  Pol Tyg Lek. 1973 May 23;28(17):613-5. Polish. No abstract available. PMID: 4514530 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]