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23-year-old infected with the H1N1 fights for life

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Polish to English translation

23-year-old infected with the H1N1 fights for life
Author PAP - 1 hr. ago

04.01. Krakow (PAP) - 23-year-old woman infected with the H1N1 fights for life in the Krakow hospital. This is the first such a severe form of influenza in Malopolska treated using cardiopulmonary bypass - told reporters on Tuesday, Dr. Raphael Niżankowski, Małopolska Voivodship Sanitary Inspector.

The woman was in the 27th week of pregnancy, which resolved by caesarean section. "The child was not the H1N1 virus. Currently, the boy is staying under the care of neonatologists - Niżankowski said.

23-year-old with severe respiratory failure was on the medical ICU II Department of Internal Medicine, Collegium Medium, Jagiellonian University. "Connecting to a respirator was not enough, her blood was not getting enough oxygen, so it was decided to implement the CPB. Special devices (ECMO - PAP) patient blood collected, passed through the Oxygenator, in which blood is oxygenated and back, it is rendered to the patient "- explained Dr Niżankowski who is a doctor in the Second Department of Internal Medicine, CM UJ.

According to doctors threat to a woman's life is still very high. "The patient is kept in a coma pharmacologically. ECMO is a very invasive treatment technique, so a threat to life is very high. What could be done, we've done now is to wait" - said the PAP branch manager Intensive Care Medicine, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. CM UJ Wieslaw Krolikowski.

He added that based on the experiences of doctors from Australia, who called during a pandemic. Swine influenza virus have used the method of cardiopulmonary bypass in the treatment, the average duration of ECMO patients was 2 weeks.

Disease in women caused the H1N1 virus has been confirmed by studies carried out in two independent laboratories. (PAP)

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Re: 23-year-old infected with the H1N1 fights for life

Polish to English translation
Status of women infected with the H1N1 virus without change
dm2011-01-09, last updated 2011-01-09 14:17
Still life is endangered 23-year old woman from Cracow, who, being pregnant, was infected with swine influenza virus. The second woman is breathing independently.


Condition of 23-year-old woman who is pregnant went to the hospital uniwerysteckiego gynecological hospital, has not changed. - Women continue to be maintained in a coma for pharmacological and device connected to the ECMO, which allows oxygenation of her blood - said Anna Niedźwiedzka, a spokeswoman for University Hospital in Krakow. A woman's life is still threatened.

The second of pregnant women infected with swine influenza virus, which on Friday was transported to the department of Pulmonology, University Hospital is in good condition, efficient in breathing. - Implemented and antiviral flu treatment - says Niedźwiedzka.

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