Upper lobe pulmonary parenchymal calcification in a patient with AIDS and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia receiving aerosolized pentamidine.
In patients with AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii infection occurring during aerosolized pentamidine prophylaxis, roentgenographic findings may be atypical. Pulmonary parenchymal calcification due to P carinii is rare. In this case, extensive upper lobe pulmonary parenchymal, splenic, and nodal calcifications occurred after two years of monthly treatments with aerosolized pentamidine.
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Division of Thoracic Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D000336:Aerosols; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010419:Pentamidine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography
D000336:Aerosols; D010419:Pentamidine