الملخص
- The organism was known formerly as Pneumocystis carinii.
- Still the most common AIDS-defining opportunistic infection.
- Suspicion for Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is based on clinical signs or symptoms of pneumonia in a person with immune suppression, especially when due to HIV infection.
- Diagnosis is made by detection of the organism in either induced sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL).
- The treatment of choice is trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX).
- The incidence of PCP is declining with the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and PCP prophylaxis.
Other related conditions
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Atypical pneumonia
- Blastomycosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Cryptococcosis
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- Histoplasmosis
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia
- HIV infection
- HIV-related opportunistic infections
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Influenza infection
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Legionella infection
- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare
- Mycoplasma infection
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Oral candidiasis
- Overview of pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Respiratory failure
- Sarcoidosis
:آخر تحديث سبت 05, 2012
