Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired respiratory infection in children. Through uncertain pathologic mechanisms, which most probably involve immunologically cell-mediated tissue damage, it causes life-threatening disease on rare occasion. We herein report a case of M. pneumoniae pneumonia, with encephalopathy followed by multiple organ failure in a previously healthy boy. Despite of intensive therapies with intravenous antibiotics, corticosteroid, hemodiafiltration, and transfusion, his neurologic and pulmonary sequales have remained. In most cases M. pneumoniae pneumonia are usually self- limiting with benign outcome. Even in healthy individual, however, it can manifest itself with a fulminant course and multi organ failure.
Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Child ; Hemodiafiltration ; Humans ; Multiple Organ Failure ; Mycoplasma ; Mycoplasma pneumoniae ; Pneumonia ; Pneumonia, Mycoplasma