نتایج جستجو برای: pneumocystis pneumonia
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Relapse of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the upper lobes during aerosol pentamidine prophylaxis.
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage of the upper lobes in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) receiving aerosol pentamidine prophylaxis. Serendipitous availability of a normal premorbid lung gallium scan indicated that pneumocystosis had developed during aerosol pentamidine prophylaxis; at the time of presentation a repeat gallium scan...
We undertook a bivariate meta-analysis to assess the overall accuracy of respiratory specimen PCR assays for diagnosing Pneumocystis pneumonia. The summary sensitivity and specificity were 0.99 (95% confidence interval, 0.96 to 1.00) and 0.90 (0.87 to 0.93). Subgroup analyses showed that quantitative PCR analysis and the major surface glycoprotein gene target had the highest specificity value (...
Two cases, one of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and the other of Absidia pneumonitis, are presented. Both are documented by appropriate laboratory studies. Both ended fatally in spite of seemingly appropriate current treatment. The Pneumocystis pneumonia was associated with prolonged corticosteroid therapy for progressive myositis and the Absidia infection was associated with uremia and cortic...
A 32 year old man with chronic severe asthma, requiring maintenance oral corticosteroids, was started on a weekly dose of methotrexate. Eleven weeks later he developed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. In the two years following treatment there has been no recurrence while oral corticosteroid treatment has been continued. Pneumocystis pneumonia should be considered in asthmatic patients taking me...
Background and Objective: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) has been historically the most prevalent opportunisticinfection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiencyvirus. Culture of the organism has not been faced with suitable success in artificial media, while various results have been reported for cell culture media. The aim of this study was proliferation of Pneumocystis carin...
To identify risk factors for the occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in homosexual men, we conducted a case-control study in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Fifty patients (cases) (39 with Kaposi's sarcoma, 8 with pneumocystis pneumonia, and 3 with both) and 120 matched homosexual male controls (from sexually transmitted disease clinics and ...
Pneumocystis is a major cause of pneumonia in immunocompromised individuals, including those with AIDS and those receiving immunosuppressive therapy. During the early stage of the AIDS epidemic, there were approximately 20,000 cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) per year. The incidence of PcP started to decline when prophylaxis was recommended in 1989 for HIV-infected patients with a CD4+ cel...
Introduction The majority of deaths from fungal infections occur in Africa. Pneumocystis is an unusual host-specific fungus that takes advantage of a weakened immune system and causes pneumonia in AIDS patients [1]. While Pneumocystis is thought to cause more than 200,000 AIDSrelated deaths annually, it also contributes to more than 50,000 non–AIDS-related deaths [2]. Recent epidemiological dat...
Background Pneumocystis carinii is one of the rare fungi which cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. It is important to detect the fungus from the clinical specimens of suspected patients by laboratory tests. Objective To identify Pneumocystis carinii from immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients with lower respiratory tract infections. Methods This study included 300 patients su...
BACKGROUND Pneumocystis jiroveci (formerly known as P. carinii f.sp. hominis) is an opportunistic fungus that causes Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised individuals. Pneumocystis jiroveci can be detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). To investigate the clinical importance of a positive Pneumocystis-PCR among HIV-uninfected patients suspected of bacterial pneumonia, a retrosp...
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