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Presents a study which evaluated inhaled or inhaled pentamidine for the treatment of patients with mild Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Diagnostic considerations; Methodology of the study; Results.
- Opportunitstic Infection in Previously Healthy Women. Masur, Henry; Michelis, Mary Ann; Wormser, Gary P.; Lewin, Sharon; Gold, Jon; Tapper, Michael L.; Giron, Jose; Lerner, Chester W.; Armstrong, Donald; Setia, Usha; Sender, Joel A.; Siebken, Robert S.; Nicholas, Peter; Arlen, Zelman; Maayan, Shlomo; Ernst, Jerome A.; Siegal, Frederick P.; Cunningham-Rundles, Susanna // Annals of Internal Medicine;Oct82, Vol. 97 Issue 4, p533
Deals with a study which reported the development of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and other opportunistic infections in a number of women in New York City. Selection of patients and controls; Patient population; Routine laboratory evaluation; Discussion of results.
- Pulse Oximetry and P. carinii Pneumonia. // American Family Physician;10/1/1993, Vol. 48 Issue 5, p866
Reports on the evaluation of the effectiveness of exercise oximetry testing in screening for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Study by Chouaid and colleagues, published in the American Review of Respiratory Disease, June 1993 issue; Drawbacks of other tests; Study on patients infected with HIV;...
- Pneumocystis carinii Identified by Gram Stain of Lung Imprints. Macher, Abe M.; Shelhamer, James; Maclowry, James; Parker, Margaret; Masur, Henry // Annals of Internal Medicine;Oct83, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p484
Focuses on the technique used for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Common diagnostic procedure for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; Description of the conventional gram-staining technique; Results of the conventional gram-staining of fresh lung tissue for the diagnosis of...
- Sirolimus. // Reactions Weekly;6/30/2007, Issue 1158, p24
The article describes the case of a 55-year-old man who developed alveolar hemorrhage during immunosuppression with sirolimus following a heart transplant. It references a study by W. I. Khalife et al, published in the June 2007 issue of the "Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation." The man...
- Trends in the postmortem diagnosis of opportunistic invasive fungal infections in patients with AIDS: a retrospective study of 1,630 autopsies performed between 1984 and 2002. Spinello Antinori; Manuela Nebuloni; Carlo Magni; Marco Fasan; Fulvio Adorni; Anita Viola; Mario Corbellino; Massimo Galli; Gianluca Vago; Carlo Parravicini; Anna Lisa Ridolfo // American Journal of Clinical Pathology;Aug2009, Vol. 132 Issue 2, p221
We retrospectively evaluated autopsy-proven invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in patients with AIDS who died between 1984 and 2002. IFIs were identified in 297 (18.2%) of 1,630 autopsies. Their prevalence significantly decreased over time (from 25.0% in 1984-1988 to 15% in 1998-2002; P = .004),...
- Plasma β-glucan for the Diagnosis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in AIDS Patients. Blackburn, Brian G. // Infectious Disease Alert;Aug2011, Vol. 30 Issue 11, p126
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a common opportunistic infection (OI) in AIDS patients. Laboratory diagnosis of this life-threatening infection is based primarily upon identifying P. jirovecii cysts in respiratory secretions, a technique that is variably sensitive and requires adequate...
- Opportunistic Infections and Mortality: Still Room for Improvement. Masur, Henry; Read, Sarah W. // Journal of Infectious Diseases;11/1/2015, Vol. 212 Issue 9, p1348
The article comments on a study on mortality among patients in San Francisco, California following diagnosis of their first AIDS-defining opportunistic infection, between 1981 and 2012 published in the current issue of the journal. Topics the finding that survival following infections such as...
- Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in HIV-Infected Patients in the HAART Era. Pulvirenti, Joseph; Herrera, Patricia; Venkataraman, Priya; Ahmed, Nooruzsabha // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Jun2003, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p261
Since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the incidence of opportunistic infections (OI) in patients with HIV has markedly decreased. Despite this, there are still large numbers of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases at Cook County Hospital (CCH). To better...
