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What are the long term side effects of legionnaires disease? i heard that asthma is one side effect.
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Death: Legionnaire's disease is a severe bacterial pneumonia. There are effective antibiotics but the death rate for persons over age 50 hospitalized with this form of pneumonia is reported to lie between 5-30%. Kidney injury has been reported after legionnaire's disease but I have not seen any patients who developed asthma after having this disease.
Answered 10/7/2018
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Usually death...: The major long term consequence of legionella pneumonae is death or post infectious complications such as kidney failure, pulmonary fibrosis from severe pneumonia, etc. There a mouse study that demonstrated emphysematous changes and bronchiectasis in untreated mice, but there are no case reports of asthma as a sequelae (consequence).
Answered 3/12/2012
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