1 Mones JM, Saldana MJ, Oldham SA. Diagnosis of Pnewnocysti.s carinii pneumonia. Roentgenographic-pathologic correlates based on fiberoptic bronchoscopy specimens for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Chest 1986; 89:522-26 2 Hartman B, Koss M, Hui A, Baumann W, Athos L, Boylen T Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Diagnosis with b...

OBJECTIVE To establish the aetiology of chronic cough in HIV-infected patients with negative sputum smears for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB). DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital, a tertiary referral centre in Kenya SUBJECTS Sixty five HIV-infected adults presenting with chronic cough and negative sputum smears for AFBs. RESULTS Sixty-two patients wer...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0977 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are severe adverse cutaneous reactions to drugs. We report here the first case of severe pneumonia caused by an unusual combined infection with Pneumocystis carinii (jiroveci), parainfluenza virus type 3, cytomeg...

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is well known and described in AIDS patients. Due to the increasing use of cytotoxic and immunosuppressive therapies, the incidence of this infection has dramatically increased in the last years in patients with other predisposing immunodeficiencies and remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients. PCP in HIV-negat...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, additional difficulties have emerged in differential diagnosis of interstitial pulmonary abnormalities, especially patients with HIV infection, whom this kind injury can be caused by a wide range pathogens, including opportunistic diseases. The high probability an adverse outcome disease severe immunodeficiency requires urgent choice effective therapy. article desc...

Figure 1. Population structure of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among African children as a function of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis. The total number of children is represented as A + B; the total number of children with PCP is represented as a + b. The ideal measure of risk, by cotrimoxazole use, of developing PCP is represented as (a/A)/(b/B). The actual measure of risk of developing PCP...

BACKGROUND The objective was to describe the causes of initial and overall AIDS-defining disease episodes among HIV patients in Singapore. METHODS A retrospective observational cohort study was performed of all adult patients seen at the national HIV referral center between 1985 and 2001. Data were extracted from the patients' records by ten trained healthcare workers. AIDS-defining condition...

A 74-year old man, with a medical history of hypertension and marijuana abuse, presented with a non-productive cough, chills and progressive dyspnea on exertion for one week. On physical examination, his temperature was 100.6, oxygen saturation was 92% on room air. Lung examination revealed right posterior basal rales. Chest x-ray demonstrated a right lower lobe infiltrate with a small pleural ...

Eighteen children with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia diagnosed over a period of 16 years at a children's hospital are reviewed. All had an underlying disease, either congenital immunodeficiency or a malignancy. 15 patients were treated, 10 with pentamidine isethionate alone, 2 with both pentamidine and co-trimoxazole, and 3 with co-trimoxazole alone. 12 of the treated group recovered and the 3...