EXTRAPULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF INFECTION CAUSED BY MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE. MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA-INDUCED MUCOSITIS
https://doi.org/10.35266/2949-3447-2025-3-9
Abstract
According to numerous Russian and foreign publications during 2023–2024, there was a significant rate increase in community-acquired pneumonia in children. At the same time, there was a large group incidence of pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the Russian Federation among children. In the respiratory mycoplasmosis clinical aspect, there is damage to various levels of the respiratory tract with the predominant involvement of the lower parts in the pathological process, the development of bronchitis and pneumonia, often with bronchial obstructive syndrome associated with mucostasis. The scientific literature gives limited information about the extrapulmonary manifestations of this infection. The most common extrapulmonary manifestations are skin lesions as various rashes, erosive and ulcerative changes in the mucosa, the so-called mucositis, damage to the cardiovascular system with the development of carditis, arrhythmias, arthritis. Rarer manifestations include hemolytic and aplastic anemia, and the most severe manifestations are damage to the central nervous system (encephalitis, mycoplasma pneumonia-induced myelitis). The article presents a clinical case of infection caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in a 10-year-old child with the development of severe mucositis in combination with damage to the respiratory tract and a number of other manifestations.
About the Authors
N. E. Senyagina
Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Sciences (Medicine), Docent
D. D. Bashlykova
2Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital No. 23, Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Head of the Infectious Diseases Department
E. A. Strakhova
Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Student
E. A. Rozova
Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Student
K. D. Glazov
Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Student
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Senyagina N.E., Bashlykova D.D., Strakhova E.A., Rozova E.A., Glazov K.D. EXTRAPULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF INFECTION CAUSED BY MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE. MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA-INDUCED MUCOSITIS. Vestnik SurGU. Meditsina. 2025;18(3):72–77. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35266/2949-3447-2025-3-9
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