A 58-Year-Old Female with Progressive Cough and Right Shoulder Pain

Cavitary pneumonia in immunocompromised patients is a challenging entity. Establishing accurate diagnosis and starting effective antibiotics are essential steps towards improving outcome. A 58-year-old stem cell transplant patient was admitted to the hospital with necrotizing pneumonia caused by noc...

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Autores principales: Thakore, Sanket R., Khasawneh, Faisal A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5107867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27872648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3049298
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description Cavitary pneumonia in immunocompromised patients is a challenging entity. Establishing accurate diagnosis and starting effective antibiotics are essential steps towards improving outcome. A 58-year-old stem cell transplant patient was admitted to the hospital with necrotizing pneumonia caused by nocardia. The disease progressed despite of aggrieve antimicrobial therapy. Nocardiosis continues to be a difficult disease to diagnose and treat.
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spelling pubmed-51078672016-11-21 A 58-Year-Old Female with Progressive Cough and Right Shoulder Pain Thakore, Sanket R. Khasawneh, Faisal A. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol Case Report Cavitary pneumonia in immunocompromised patients is a challenging entity. Establishing accurate diagnosis and starting effective antibiotics are essential steps towards improving outcome. A 58-year-old stem cell transplant patient was admitted to the hospital with necrotizing pneumonia caused by nocardia. The disease progressed despite of aggrieve antimicrobial therapy. Nocardiosis continues to be a difficult disease to diagnose and treat. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5107867/ /pubmed/27872648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3049298 Text en Copyright © 2016 S. R. Thakore and F. A. Khasawneh. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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