Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman

BACKGROUND: Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) occurs mainly in immunocompromised hosts, which is associated with abnormal cellular immunity. CASE PRESENTATION: A 26-year-old pregnant woman presented with fever and general weakness. Miliary lung nodules were noted on chest X-ray. Under t...

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Autores principales: Song, Joon Young, Park, Cheong Won, Kee, Sae Yoon, Choi, Won Seok, Kang, Eun Young, Sohn, Jang Wook, Kim, Woo Joo, Kim, Min Ja, Cheong, Hee Jin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17054802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-154
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author Song, Joon Young
Park, Cheong Won
Kee, Sae Yoon
Choi, Won Seok
Kang, Eun Young
Sohn, Jang Wook
Kim, Woo Joo
Kim, Min Ja
Cheong, Hee Jin
author_facet Song, Joon Young
Park, Cheong Won
Kee, Sae Yoon
Choi, Won Seok
Kang, Eun Young
Sohn, Jang Wook
Kim, Woo Joo
Kim, Min Ja
Cheong, Hee Jin
author_sort Song, Joon Young
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description BACKGROUND: Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) occurs mainly in immunocompromised hosts, which is associated with abnormal cellular immunity. CASE PRESENTATION: A 26-year-old pregnant woman presented with fever and general weakness. Miliary lung nodules were noted on chest X-ray. Under the impression of miliary tuberculosis, anti-tuberculosis medication was administered. However, the patient was not improved. Further work-up demonstrated MAC in the sputum and placenta. The patient was treated successfully with clarithromycin-based combination regimen. CONCLUSION: This appears to be the first case of disseminated MAC in an otherwise healthy pregnant woman. Clinicians should be alert for the diagnosis of MAC infection in diverse clinical conditions.
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spelling pubmed-16348522006-11-07 Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman Song, Joon Young Park, Cheong Won Kee, Sae Yoon Choi, Won Seok Kang, Eun Young Sohn, Jang Wook Kim, Woo Joo Kim, Min Ja Cheong, Hee Jin BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) occurs mainly in immunocompromised hosts, which is associated with abnormal cellular immunity. CASE PRESENTATION: A 26-year-old pregnant woman presented with fever and general weakness. Miliary lung nodules were noted on chest X-ray. Under the impression of miliary tuberculosis, anti-tuberculosis medication was administered. However, the patient was not improved. Further work-up demonstrated MAC in the sputum and placenta. The patient was treated successfully with clarithromycin-based combination regimen. CONCLUSION: This appears to be the first case of disseminated MAC in an otherwise healthy pregnant woman. Clinicians should be alert for the diagnosis of MAC infection in diverse clinical conditions. BioMed Central 2006-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC1634852/ /pubmed/17054802 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-154 Text en Copyright © 2006 Song et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Song, Joon Young
Park, Cheong Won
Kee, Sae Yoon
Choi, Won Seok
Kang, Eun Young
Sohn, Jang Wook
Kim, Woo Joo
Kim, Min Ja
Cheong, Hee Jin
Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
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title_full Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
title_fullStr Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
title_short Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
title_sort disseminated mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent pregnant woman
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17054802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-154
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