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cord-019010-9xgwjvsv	Luna, C. M.	Life-threatening Respiratory Failure from H1N1 Influenza: Lessons from the Southern Cone Outbreak	2010-06-23		.txt	text/plain	4578	192	35	Consistent with this particular situation, the health system in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires began to show evidences of collapse, use of ventilators increased critically, achieving an extremely unusual level; about a quarter of the available ICU beds were occupied by young and previously healthy patients with ARDS associated with severe bilateral pneumonia due to 'swine flu' who needed mechanical ventilation. These figures are difficult to extrapolate globally and to confirm, as epidemiological studies looking at the population at risk in different world areas are lacking, but the huge number of severely ill patients with ARDS due to primary influenza pneumonia (an extremely unusual complication) observed in the Southern Cone, suggest that these estimations could be realistic. Viral cultures of respiratory specimens, especially if A 29 year-old obese male with arterial hypertension secondary to Cushing's disease (hypophyseal adenoma) developed bilateral pneumonia and died from respiratory failure secondary to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) after 13 days on mechanical ventilation, with multiple organ failure, including renal and hemodynamic compromise requiring high doses of vasopressors.	./cache/cord-019010-9xgwjvsv.txt	./txt/cord-019010-9xgwjvsv.txt