Publications by authors named "L Peipoch"
Purpose: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common healthcare-associated infection in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), increasing mortality, antibiotics use and duration of ventilation and hospitalization. VAP diagnosis is based on clinical and chest X-ray (CXR) signs defined by the 2018 Center for Disease Control (gold standard). However, CXR induces repetitive patients' irradiation and technical limitations.
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- Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is primarily known for causing respiratory infections, but it can also lead to rare non-respiratory issues like myocarditis, with only two adult cases previously reported.
- A 14-year-old girl with Burkitt leukemia developed severe myocarditis due to hMPV, diagnosed through RT-PCR and MRI, and she received treatment with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and IV immunoglobulins.
- This is the first documented case of hMPV myocarditis in a pediatric patient that required advanced respiratory support, highlighting the virus's potential severity in immunocompromised individuals.
We report a case of cerebral phaeohyphomycosis, a fungal brain infection due to a dark (dematiaceous) fungi in a 6-year-old French Guyanese boy. The child presented fever and drowsiness due to several paraventricular brain abscesses. Neurological surgeries were performed to reduce intracranial hypertension and to obtain abscess biopsies.
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