title: Role of imaging and interventional techniques in the diagnosis of respiratory disease in the immunocompromised host.
abstract: A pure "pattern-recognition" approach to lung diseases in immune compromised patients as seen on the chest film is of limited value since any infection can present with several different patterns, and processes such as embolism, aspiration, edema, and hemorrhage may give appearances similar to infection. However certain pulmonary infections do occur commonly in association with one type of immunosuppression but rarely with others. Knowledge of these associations assists in narrowing down the differential diagnosis and in deciding upon the most appropriate next confirmatory diagnostic step.
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Ognibene
authors.forename: H I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Pass
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Shelhamer
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Milne
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000150:complications*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D008722:Methods