Two Cases of Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia in Elderly Patients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 891-895

  Matsuyama, Wataru ^a   Tsurukawa, Toshihiro ^b   Iwami, Fumiyuki ^a   Wakimoto, Joeji ^a   Mizoguchi, Akira ^a   Kawabata, Masaharu ^b   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^b  

^a Minami Kyushu Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Emphysema; Human immunodeficiency virus; Opportunistic infection; Pneumocystis carinii

Indexed keywords

AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FATALITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW;

AGED; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FATAL OUTCOME; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032176258     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.891     Document Type: Article

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