What Is Legionnaires?
8. Complications
Legionnaire’s disease can lead to some very serious complications in the more severe cases. The bacteria can cause severe problems not only with the lungs, but also with other organs in the body. In the lungs, legionnaire’s disease can cause respiratory failure. This means the patient can’t take on oxygen or remove carbon dioxide from their blood.
Acute kidney failure is another potential complication, and one that can be very dangerous indeed. It means that the kidneys are unable to filter toxins from the blood, and the toxins will rise to dangerous levels. Septic shock is another possibility. Such is the severity of these complications that they will result in fatalities in some cases.
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