Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with a high mortality rate, which increases substantially with the need for mechanical ventilation. Local experience of patients with PCP admitted to the intensive care unit has revealed mortality rate...

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Autores principales: Nethathe, Gladness, Patel, Nirav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5843145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29568616
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v17i1.474
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description Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with a high mortality rate, which increases substantially with the need for mechanical ventilation. Local experience of patients with PCP admitted to the intensive care unit has revealed mortality rates close to 100%. We present a case of a 39-year-old HIV-infected man diagnosed with PCP who was successfully weaned from mechanical ventilation after presenting with respiratory distress and severe hypoxaemia. A short review of the literature will also be presented.
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spelling pubmed-58431452018-03-22 Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report Nethathe, Gladness Patel, Nirav South Afr J HIV Med Case Report Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with a high mortality rate, which increases substantially with the need for mechanical ventilation. Local experience of patients with PCP admitted to the intensive care unit has revealed mortality rates close to 100%. We present a case of a 39-year-old HIV-infected man diagnosed with PCP who was successfully weaned from mechanical ventilation after presenting with respiratory distress and severe hypoxaemia. A short review of the literature will also be presented. AOSIS 2016-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5843145/ /pubmed/29568616 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v17i1.474 Text en © 2016. The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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title Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report
title_full Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report
title_fullStr Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report
title_short Survival after Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: A case report
title_sort survival after pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia requiring ventilation: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5843145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29568616
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v17i1.474
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