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3715048

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
The medical records, radiographs, and pathologic specimens of ten patients with the diagnoses of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were examined. The radiographic findings of alveolar or nodular infiltrates and adenopathy were relatively nonspecific but in most cases led to bronchoscopic study or open-lung biopsy, which established the diagnosis. Bronchoscopic washings or sputum cultures, which frequently provided the first confirmation of infection, were always followed by positive blood or tissue cultures. In contrast to nontuberculous infection in immunocompetent hosts, disseminated infection was common, with evidence of extrapulmonary involvement in nine patients. On the basis of these findings, we recommend that any AIDS patient with sputum or bronchoscopic washings demonstrating nontuberculous mycobacterial organisms be tentatively classified as having disseminated infection while being evaluated with blood, bone-marrow, stool, and urine cultures, even if the chest radiograph shows no disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0033-8419
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
160
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
77-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in AIDS: clinical, pathologic, and radiographic features.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports