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Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia?
Combined variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency, characterized by impairment in immune system function. These patients are susceptible to opportunistic infections, which may mimic COVID-19 manifestations. Also, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of opportunistic infections can...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8904891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.814300 |
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author | Tehrani, Shabnam Ziaie, Shadi Kashefizadeh, Alireza Fadaei, Mahta Najafiarab, Hanieh Keyvanfar, Amirreza |
author_facet | Tehrani, Shabnam Ziaie, Shadi Kashefizadeh, Alireza Fadaei, Mahta Najafiarab, Hanieh Keyvanfar, Amirreza |
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description | Combined variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency, characterized by impairment in immune system function. These patients are susceptible to opportunistic infections, which may mimic COVID-19 manifestations. Also, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of opportunistic infections can lead to perilous consequences. We report a 28-year-old woman with a history of combined variable immunodeficiency disorder (CVID) and ulcerative colitis (UC) complained of fever, cough, and dyspnea. According to the clinical and radiological manifestations and the COVID-19 epidemic, she was admitted with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. After a week, the patient did not respond to treatment, so she underwent bronchoscopy. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methodology, we detected DNA of Pneumocystis jirovecii, the causative agent of a life-threatening pneumonia (PCP), in respiratory specimens. The patient was hypersensitive to common PCP treatments, so she was treated with high-dose clindamycin. However, the patient's clinical condition aggravated. Besides, we found evidence of pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and pneumopericardium in chest CT scan. We inserted a catheter for the patient to evacuate the air inside the mediastinum. Also, we added caspofungin to the treatment. The patient eventually recovered and was discharged from the hospital about a week later. Thus, during the COVID-19 epidemic, in febrile patients with respiratory symptoms, physicians should not think only of COVID-19. They must consider opportunistic infections such as PCP, especially in immunocompromised patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-89048912022-03-10 Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? Tehrani, Shabnam Ziaie, Shadi Kashefizadeh, Alireza Fadaei, Mahta Najafiarab, Hanieh Keyvanfar, Amirreza Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine Combined variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency, characterized by impairment in immune system function. These patients are susceptible to opportunistic infections, which may mimic COVID-19 manifestations. Also, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of opportunistic infections can lead to perilous consequences. We report a 28-year-old woman with a history of combined variable immunodeficiency disorder (CVID) and ulcerative colitis (UC) complained of fever, cough, and dyspnea. According to the clinical and radiological manifestations and the COVID-19 epidemic, she was admitted with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. After a week, the patient did not respond to treatment, so she underwent bronchoscopy. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methodology, we detected DNA of Pneumocystis jirovecii, the causative agent of a life-threatening pneumonia (PCP), in respiratory specimens. The patient was hypersensitive to common PCP treatments, so she was treated with high-dose clindamycin. However, the patient's clinical condition aggravated. Besides, we found evidence of pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and pneumopericardium in chest CT scan. We inserted a catheter for the patient to evacuate the air inside the mediastinum. Also, we added caspofungin to the treatment. The patient eventually recovered and was discharged from the hospital about a week later. Thus, during the COVID-19 epidemic, in febrile patients with respiratory symptoms, physicians should not think only of COVID-19. They must consider opportunistic infections such as PCP, especially in immunocompromised patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8904891/ /pubmed/35280884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.814300 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tehrani, Ziaie, Kashefizadeh, Fadaei, Najafiarab and Keyvanfar. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Tehrani, Shabnam Ziaie, Shadi Kashefizadeh, Alireza Fadaei, Mahta Najafiarab, Hanieh Keyvanfar, Amirreza Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? |
title | Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? |
title_full | Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? |
title_fullStr | Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? |
title_full_unstemmed | Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? |
title_short | Case Report: Pneumonia in a Patient With Combined Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 or Pneumocystis Pneumonia? |
title_sort | case report: pneumonia in a patient with combined variable immunodeficiency: covid-19 or pneumocystis pneumonia? |
topic | Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8904891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.814300 |
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