Inappropriate use of steroid and Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia: Report of two cases

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1217-1221

  Tabarsi, P ^a   Mirsaeidi, M ^a   Amiri, M ^a   Karimi, S ^a   Masjedi, M R ^a   Mansouri, D ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPUTUM; TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THRUSH; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHOSCOPY; DOPING IN SPORTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PREDNISOLONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 55149118377     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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