Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases: A Retrospective Study Focused on Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Factors Related to Death

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 9; p. e0139144
• Main Authors: Chen, Minjiang, Tian, Xinlun, Qin, Fang, Zhou, Jiong, Liu, Jinjing, Wang, Mengzhao, Xu, Kai-Feng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 30.09.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Albumin; Arthritis; Autoimmune diseases; Autoimmune Diseases - complications; CD4 antigen; Cell number; Cough; Cytomegalovirus; Dosage; Drug dosages; Dyspnea; Female; Fever; Glucocorticoids; HIV; Hospitals; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Immunosuppressive agents; Infections; Kidney diseases; Laboratories; Lung diseases; Lupus; Lymphocytes; Lymphocytes T; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medical prognosis; Medicine; Middle Aged; Mortality; Multivariate analysis; Opacity; Patient outcomes; Patients; Pneumocystis carinii; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Pneumocystis - complications; Pneumonia, Pneumocystis - diagnosis; Pneumonia, Pneumocystis - mortality; Polymerase chain reaction; Prognosis; Respiration; Retrospective Studies; Survival Analysis; Viruses; Young Adult; Beijing China; China

With the increasing use of immunosuppressive agents, the number of opportunistic infections has risen in patients with autoimmune diseases. Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is one of these opportunistic infections that have a high mortality rate. However, only a few studies have described PCP in these p...