[A case of successful antibiotic therapy of legionnaires' disease with lesions of the lungs and heart].

Pulmonary affections in patients with legionellosis are the main ones. The affections of the heart, gastrointestinal tract and other organs and systems are less frequent. Some characteristic features of the legionellosis clinical process in the case described are indicated. The torpid process of chronic bronchitis, the two-phase pattern of the disease, dyspnea at 3-4 month intervals, intermissions, edema and failure of complex therapy with antibiotics and cardiac glycosides provided a tentative diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia with affection of the myocardium. The importance of early serological diagnosis (enzyme immunoassay) was shown. A new approach to the treatment of legionellosis with cefuroxime was of interest.