Spontaneous pneumothorax: a fatal complication in HIV-infected patients
| Autor: | Victor Costa Morais de Oliveira, Izabella Picinin Safe, Márcia Melo Damian, Paula Marques Marinho, Marcus V. G. Lacerda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Medicine(all)
Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections business.industry Mortality rate Pneumonia Pneumocystis lcsh:QR1-502 Pneumothorax medicine.disease lcsh:Microbiology Surgery lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Infectious Diseases Cause of Death medicine Hiv infected patients Humans In patient lcsh:RC109-216 business Complication Tuberculosis Pulmonary |
| Zdroj: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 18, Iss 4, p 466 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 1678-4391 |
| Popis: | findings. Mortality rate of patients who had bilat-eral SP was 2/2, and 3/5 in patients with unilateral. Chest tubethoracostomy (CTT) was the first-line procedure with resolu-tion in only two cases. Interval between SP onset and deathranged from three to nine days. Earlier reports confirmed thatHIV-related SP usually occurs in the setting of active PJP andCD4 |
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