Kundu Suhali, Sharma Shaurya, Minhas Ramandeep, Scheers-Masters Joshua, Saunders Paul C
Internal Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Diagnostic Radiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Cureus. 2019 Nov 12;11(11):e6135. doi: 10.7759/cureus.6135.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening inflammatory state of lung injury that can require acute interventions including mechanical ventilation as well as emergent veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) for management. Etiologies of ARDS are not clearly discernible in certain cases and can vary from sepsis, pneumonia, trauma and intoxication. Anti-nuclear cytoplasmic auto-antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a group of several conditions that can have pulmonary complications including ARDS. We present a case where the primary manifestation of myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA positive vasculitis was ARDS, in order to highlight the importance of investigating rare vasculitides as the underlying cause of ARDS and the importance of ECMO as an early life-saving intervention for the management of ARDS.
急性呼吸窘迫综合征(ARDS)是一种危及生命的肺损伤炎症状态,可能需要包括机械通气以及紧急静脉 - 静脉体外膜肺氧合(VV - ECMO)在内的急性干预措施来进行治疗。在某些情况下,ARDS的病因并不明确,可能包括败血症、肺炎、创伤和中毒等。抗中性粒细胞胞浆自身抗体(ANCA)相关血管炎(AAV)是一组可能出现包括ARDS在内的肺部并发症的疾病。我们报告了一例以髓过氧化物酶(MPO) - ANCA阳性血管炎为主要表现的ARDS病例,以强调将罕见血管炎作为ARDS潜在病因进行调查的重要性,以及ECMO作为ARDS早期挽救生命干预措施的重要性。