Maillet F, Bonnet N, Billard-Pomares T, El Alaoui Magdoud F, Tandjaoui-Lambiotte Y. Fatal Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 pleural empyema: A case report. World J Crit Care Med 2019; 8(6): 99-105 [PMID: 31750087 DOI: 10.5492/wjccm.v8.i6.99]
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Yacine Tandjaoui-Lambiotte, MD, Doctor, Intensive Care Unit, Avicenne Hospital, APHP, 125 rue de Stalingrad, Bobigny 93000, France. yacine.tandjaoui-lambiotte@aphp.fr
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World J Crit Care Med. Oct 16, 2019; 8(6): 99-105 Published online Oct 16, 2019. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v8.i6.99
Fatal Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 pleural empyema: A case report
François Maillet, Nicolas Bonnet, Typhaine Billard-Pomares, Fatma El Alaoui Magdoud, Yacine Tandjaoui-Lambiotte
François Maillet, Nicolas Bonnet, Yacine Tandjaoui-Lambiotte, Intensive Care Unit, Avicenne Hospital, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Bobigny 93000, France
Nicolas Bonnet, Paris XIII University, Bobigny 93000, France
Typhaine Billard-Pomares, Microbiology Department, Avicenne Hospital, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Bobigny 93000, France
Fatma El Alaoui Magdoud, Microbiology Department, Jean Verdier Hospital, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Bondy 93140, France
Author contributions: Maillet F drafted the manuscript and reviewed the literature. Bonnet N contributed to the manuscript drafting. Billard-Pomares T and El Alaoui Magdoud F performed microbiological analyses and interpretation and contributed to the manuscript drafting. Tandjaoui-Lambiotte Y contributed to the manuscript drafting, reviewed and analyzed the literature and was responsible of the manuscript’s revision. All authors issued final approval for the version to be submitted
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was not available due to the death of the patient. No family was available.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Yacine Tandjaoui-Lambiotte, MD, Doctor, Intensive Care Unit, Avicenne Hospital, APHP, 125 rue de Stalingrad, Bobigny 93000, France. yacine.tandjaoui-lambiotte@aphp.fr
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Received: April 22, 2019 Peer-review started: April 23, 2019 First decision: August 1, 2019 Revised: August 29, 2019 Accepted: September 9, 2019 Article in press: September 9, 2019 Published online: October 16, 2019
Core Tip
Core tip: Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila) is a gram-negative bacillus known as a common cause of pneumonia, with frequent parapneumonic pleural effusion. In contrast, pleural empyema seems very uncommon. We report here the case of an 81-year-old man with multiple comorbidities who presented with a large left pleural effusion. Despite wide antibiotic courses against extracellular bacteria associated to surgical thoracentesis, patient died of uncontrolled septic shock. L. pneumophila serogroup 1 was isolated from the surgical pleural liquid sample, consistent with a pleural localization of Legionnaire’s disease. We therefore would emphasize that L. pneumophila is an exceptional cause of pleural empyema in patients with multiple risk factors.
