Sánchez AV, Bosch CC, Sánchez ATM

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 705-710
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ABSTRACT

The case report of a 44 years female is presented, with a 32 weeks pregnancy, who was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, for presenting acute respiratory failure due to a sepsis. The patient was treated with third generation cephalosporins and non invasive mechanical ventilation, but the hypoxemic gasometrical characteristic and a poor therapeutic reaction remained, so that instrumentation of the airways and hemodynamic support were required, without achieving improvement of the clinical pattern, which led to a cardiorespiratory arrest and with it, to death. The autopsy showed a choriocarcinoma of endometrium with lung metastasis.

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