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"SOS" from Beijing,China

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LF+   "SOS" Again From Beijing on June 23,1995   +   +The sad news gloomed the usual cheerful Campus of Beijing second Institute o   +Foreign  Languages: a once healthy and promising girl student was ambulanced   +to hospital for a rare and dreadful disease. Clearly Chen Qi is turning into the Craig Shergold of the nineties.                                         -dlj.  * 1st 1.11 #3818 *                   This post 100% OJ free.

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: LF+   "SOS" Again From Beijing on June 23,1995 :   +to hospital for a rare and dreadful disease. :   : Clearly Chen Qi is turning into the Craig Shergold of the nineties. That’s what I was thinking;  I just couldn’t remember Craig’s name. —

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Hi, I just cross post the following message hoping someone might help. I don’t know either the original poster or the patient. Please contact them directly. Thanks. Article: 94319 of alt.chinese.text Xref: netcom.com alt.chinese.text:94319 Path: netcom.com!csus.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrind e!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ene ws.sgi.com!ames!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!linuxguy.pku.edu.cn!pccms!teng Newsgroups: alt.chinese.text Organization: Peking University,China Lines: 105 NNTP-Posting-Host: pccms.pku.edu.cn X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]                  "SOS" Again From Beijing on June 23,1995 The sad news gloomed the usual cheerful Campus of Beijing second Institute of Foreign  Languages: a once healthy and promising girl student was ambulanced to hospital for a rare and dreadful disease. Soon after she was hospitalized, prominent and experienced doctors from several hospitals came to her urgent diagnosis and treatment,but wuthout being able to work things better on her: she is still lying on bed,struggling with death. This twenty-one year-old girl who love life is now living on blood-transfusion and a breathing machine, whose critical case has been worrying her parents, her teach- ers and her schoolmates. To save such a young life,we urgently appeal to the world to give her a hope by kindly contributing whatever that can save the girl’s life. We can’t endure the pains of seeing her leaving the world she had loved! More details about her illness are following:                         ABSTRACT    Chen Qi, twenty year-old, female, unmarried, junior university student.    She was admitted on May 7,1995 with chief complaint of fever and cough for 17 days and shortness of breath for 10 days.    On April 20,1995, she felt chilly and slightly coughed without sputum. The temperature was 39.5′C. Blood routine tests were normal. She was given APC and cefazolin without any effect. Ten days before admission, shortness of breath ocurred and chest X-ray showed diffused infiltrative lesions in both lung fields. Blood gas analysis showed respiratory failure( type 1). Then she was treated with INH,RFP,PZA and Ciprofloxacin for the suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis for ten days,but still no improvment. After emergent consultation, she was transferred to our ward.    Past history: Staying in Beijing. No travel history. No exposure history to tuberculosis and other communicable diseases( including sexual transmitted disease).    Family members are all healthy.    PE: T 38′C, P 120 bpm. R 35/min, BP 120/80 mmHg. No lymph node enlarged. Slight cyanosis. No jaundice. Dry and moist rales was heard in both lower lungs. Liver was 3 cm below right coastal margin. No other positive signs were found.    Lab: Blood Rt: Hb 114-102 g/L, WBC 4800-9500/3xmm, N 65-87%, L10-30%, Plt 144000-344000/3xmm.         Urine adn Stool: (-)         Serum K 4.2mEq/L, Na 133mEq/L, Cl 99mEq/L, Cr 0.7mg/dl, BUN 13mg/dl, FBS 103mg/dl.         ESR: 32mm/hr         ALT: 48IU/L, T-Bil <1mg/dl, A/G> 1.         HBsAg,HBsAb, HBcAb, HBeAg, HBeAb: (-)         Anti-CMV: (-)         Titers of anti-Lp in serum:    Date         anti-Lp1        anti-Lp6        anti-Lp12    5.8          1:8             1.128           1:8    5.15         1:16            1:128           1:32    5.18         1:40            1:160           1:80         ANA,Anti-dsDNA, Ig, RF, C3, CH5O, anti-ENA: (-)         Blood and sputum culture for bacteria (-)         Anti-HIV:(-)X2         Type IV collegen: 225ng/ml (N<140ng/ml)         B type ultrasonic examination: slight splenomegaly     After admission, she was given VPAP ventilator by face mask with IPAP 4-10cmH2O, EPAP 0-4cmH20 and FiO2 201/min. She also was treated with Erythromycin 1.2g/d X10d, INH, EMB, RFP X30d. One week later, bilateral pneumothoraxes occurred, so thoracic drainages were given till now. Drugs included: Tienam, INH, RFP, PZA, Acyclovir X8d, Diflucan, Succinate hydro- cortisone 250mg/d X3d, 200mg/d X 8d, 150mg/d and CTX 1.0g.  The temperature had been normal for one month, but the consolidated and fibrotic lesions in lungs remained unchanged. It was difficult to maintain her pO2 above 60mmHg, whereas,pCO2 rose up gradually. She was intubated and ventilated with SIMV mode on June 14. Monitor showed her SaO2 92-96%. pCO2 could be maintained within normal range.                 Impression:                         1. Acute interstitial pneumonitis caused unknown                            Acute progressive idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?                            Acute respiratory failure (type I)                         2. Pulmonary infection caused undefined?                            ARDS ( complicated )?                         3. Pneumothorax ( bilateral )                                                 PUMC hospital ( Xie2 He2 )                                                 Respiratory Department                                                 June 20,1995 Contact address: Mr.Zhao,  Computer Center, Beijing second Institute of Foreign Languages. Tel. 86-10-5767463. We have put her X-ray pictures on  WWW servers in Tsinghua University and Peking University.You can access them through http://www.cernet.edu.cn/tsinghua/SOS or http://www.pku.edu.cn–>ftp–>SOS, or ftp://ftp.pku.edu.cn/SOS, almost 20Mb.

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