1. Pneumocystis Hepatitis and Choroiditis Despite Successful Aerosolized Pentamidine Pulmonary Prophylaxis
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Jon S. Huseby and William A. Hagopian
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Adult ,Male ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Choroiditis ,Opportunistic Infections ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Hepatitis ,medicine ,Pneumocystosis ,Humans ,Pentamidine ,Aerosols ,Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Pneumocystis ,business.industry ,Pneumonia, Pneumocystis ,Respiratory disease ,medicine.disease ,respiratory tract diseases ,Pneumonia ,Pneumocystis carinii ,Liver biopsy ,Immunology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
A patient who developed Pneumocystis carinii hepatitis and choroiditis despite receiving prophylactic pentamidine therapy by aerosol is described. Liver biopsy showed histology typical of Pneumocystis hepatitis, but his respiratory status was stable and his lungs were free of P carinii organisms on BAL. Thus, inhaled pentamidine prophylaxis did not prevent extrapulmonary pneumocystosis. Patients receiving pentamidine prophylaxis with unexplained symptoms should undergo investigation for possible extrapulmonary P carinii infection.
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- 1989
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