Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report

The highest risk of opportunistic infections is from 1 to 6 months post-transplant. We report a rare case of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a renal transplant recipient only on maintenance immunosuppression eleven years after transplant without concomitant CMV infection or recent episodes of gr...

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Autores principales: Prasad, Prithiv, Lo, Kevin Bryan, Ram, Pradhum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5814367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.01.006
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spelling pubmed-58143672018-02-27 Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report Prasad, Prithiv Lo, Kevin Bryan Ram, Pradhum Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report The highest risk of opportunistic infections is from 1 to 6 months post-transplant. We report a rare case of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a renal transplant recipient only on maintenance immunosuppression eleven years after transplant without concomitant CMV infection or recent episodes of graft rejection. Elsevier 2018-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5814367/ /pubmed/29487779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.01.006 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
title Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
title_full Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
title_fullStr Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
title_short Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
title_sort late presentation of pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5814367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.01.006
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