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7835242

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-2-27
pubmed:abstractText
A 51-year-old man, known to have chronic-aggressive hepatitis B, HIV infection and exertional dyspnoea, was hospitalized because of acute physical deterioration, cough with whitish exudate and dyspnoea at rest. Despite a CD4/CD8 ratio of 0.16 no prophylactic measures against Pneumocystis carinii had been taken. On examination the lungs were unremarkable, but the liver was enlarged and there were petechiae over all parts of the body. Laboratory tests showed impaired liver functions and a rise in lactate dehydrogenase activity (538 U/l). Chest radiogram demonstrated small to very small infiltrates in the lung. As Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was suspected but bronchoscopy was too risky, he was at first treated with trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole (four times 320/1600 mg/24 h intravenously). When this failed, he received pentamidine (4 mg/kg, after 4 days 2 mg/kg intravenously), and finally cefotiam (twice 2 g daily), tobramycin (three times 40 mg daily) and corticoids (100 mg). Despite this treatment he died after 10 days from respiratory failure. Autopsy revealed interstitial pneumonia throughout the lung as well as focal mucor infiltrations in the wall of middle-calibre lung veins. Mucor is a ubiquitous, facultatively pathogenic mold fungus.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0012-0472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
120
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
94-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
[Pulmonary mucormycosis in an HIV-infected patient].
pubmed:affiliation
Medizinische Abteilung, Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg, Hamburg.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports