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  • “A subset of patients presents with atypical clinical and radiographic features termed chronic PCP. These patients have a prolonged clinical course over months or years, with persistent stable symptoms and radiographic abnormalities corresponding to pathologic findings of interstitial fibrosis, traction bronchiectasis, and honeycombing.”
    Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Imaging
    Khan AN et al.
    Medscape
  • “Patients who do not have AIDS but are immunocompromised and at risk for PCP include individuals with hematologic malignancies ; organ transplant recipients ; and those receiving long-term steroid or cytotoxic therapy, including patients with systemic vasculitis or other autoimmune deficiency. Other patients with immune deficiency disorders who are at particular risk for PCP include those with thymic dysplasia, those with severe combined immunodeficiency, and those with hypogammaglobulinemia. Severe malnutrition may predispose patients to PCP..”
    Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Imaging
    Khan AN et al.
    Medscape
  • “Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is caused by the ubiquitous unicellular eukaryote, P carinii. This organism is a rare cause of infection in the general population, but it is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in persons who are immunocompromised, especially patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).”
    Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Imaging
    Khan AN et al.
    Medscape
  • TB: Facts
    -10 million patients worldwide
    -Patients at risk are immunocomprimised, poor, alcoholics, the aged
    -Spread is to regional lymph nodes, hematogenous spread, pleura, pericardium, upper lumbar vertebral bodies
    -Primary TB is spread by inhalation of infected droplets

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