A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS

We report a case of a 39-year-old HIV positive transgender female with isolated manifestations of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection. Although MAC infection is common in immunocompromised patients, the classical presentation is extra-pulmonary. Pulmonary MAC infection is extremely...

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Autores principales: Abaleka, Fuad I, Nigussie, Bisrat, Onal, Ozlem, Al-Zakhari, Rana, Yimer, Esmael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32699726
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9223
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author Abaleka, Fuad I
Nigussie, Bisrat
Onal, Ozlem
Al-Zakhari, Rana
Yimer, Esmael
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description We report a case of a 39-year-old HIV positive transgender female with isolated manifestations of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection. Although MAC infection is common in immunocompromised patients, the classical presentation is extra-pulmonary. Pulmonary MAC infection is extremely rare. The majority of cases involve patients with underlying structural lung disease. There are no case reports of isolated pulmonary MAC in HIV/AIDS patients without any structural lung disease in the last 17 years. Also, we have not found any cases of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients with pulmonary MAC being the initial presentation.
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spelling pubmed-73706042020-07-21 A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS Abaleka, Fuad I Nigussie, Bisrat Onal, Ozlem Al-Zakhari, Rana Yimer, Esmael Cureus Internal Medicine We report a case of a 39-year-old HIV positive transgender female with isolated manifestations of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection. Although MAC infection is common in immunocompromised patients, the classical presentation is extra-pulmonary. Pulmonary MAC infection is extremely rare. The majority of cases involve patients with underlying structural lung disease. There are no case reports of isolated pulmonary MAC in HIV/AIDS patients without any structural lung disease in the last 17 years. Also, we have not found any cases of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients with pulmonary MAC being the initial presentation. Cureus 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7370604/ /pubmed/32699726 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9223 Text en Copyright © 2020, Abaleka et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Abaleka, Fuad I
Nigussie, Bisrat
Onal, Ozlem
Al-Zakhari, Rana
Yimer, Esmael
A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS
title A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS
title_full A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS
title_fullStr A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS
title_short A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Being the First Presentation of a Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS
title_sort case of isolated pulmonary mycobacterium avium complex being the first presentation of a newly diagnosed hiv/aids
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32699726
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9223
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