Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in thymoma with hypogammaglobulinaemia: successful outcome of therapy including i.v. IgG replacement.
A 66-year-old patient presented with Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia (PCP) and was found to have hypogammaglobulinaemia, associated with a thymoma that had been resected 17 months earlier. Only one previous case of PCP in association with a thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia has been reported, in which the patient died. We report another such patient who was successfully treated with a combination of intravenous immunoglobulin and high dose cotrimoxazole.
Mackenzie
S J
SJ
Intensive Therapy Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
Williams
P E
PE
Rajagopalan
N
N
Grant
I S
IS
Petrie
G R
GR
Burns
S M
SM
Yap
P L
PL
D000361:Agammaglobulinemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D015662:Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use
D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D015662:Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination