Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Pediatric Neurology Unit, Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
J Pediatr. 2017 Jul;186:186-188.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.02.063. Epub 2017 Mar 20.
Patients with infantile spasms, an intractable epileptic disorder, often are treated with adrenocorticotropic hormone. Legionella pneumophila is a rare cause of pneumonia in children. We describe 2 infants with Legionella pneumonia whose infection occurred within 1 month after starting adrenocorticotropic hormone.
患有婴儿痉挛症（一种难治性癫痫疾病）的患者通常会接受促肾上腺皮质激素治疗。嗜肺军团菌是儿童肺炎的罕见病因。我们描述了 2 例婴儿嗜肺军团菌肺炎，他们在开始使用促肾上腺皮质激素后 1 个月内发生了感染。
