Pneumocystis pneumonia in a treatment-naive rheumatoid arthritis patient

A HIV-negative, newly diagnosed patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was found to have pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia. The infection was treated with three weeks of atovaquone and corticosteroids. Clinicians should be aware of pneumocystis pneumonia as an infection in RA patients not receiving tr...

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Autores principales: Shobayo, Anuoluwapo, Nwanyanwu, Chiemeziem, Chapnick, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31692611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00647
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spelling pubmed-68049402019-11-05 Pneumocystis pneumonia in a treatment-naive rheumatoid arthritis patient Shobayo, Anuoluwapo Nwanyanwu, Chiemeziem Chapnick, Edward IDCases Article A HIV-negative, newly diagnosed patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was found to have pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia. The infection was treated with three weeks of atovaquone and corticosteroids. Clinicians should be aware of pneumocystis pneumonia as an infection in RA patients not receiving treatment. Elsevier 2019-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6804940/ /pubmed/31692611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00647 Text en © 2019 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31692611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00647
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