title: Pneumatosis [correction of Pneumocystis] cystoides intestinalis with pneumoperitoneum and pneumoretroperitoneum in a patient with extensive chronic graft-versus-host disease.
abstract: Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis is a rare finding of intramural gasfilled cysts in the bowel wall and sometimes free air in the abdomen. A few conditions are reported to cause this disease, one of them being immunosuppression. We describe a 50-year-old Caucasian male with extensive chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) of the gut and skin who developed PCI with pneumoperitoneum and pneumoretroperitoneum. To our knowledge, this is the first report of PCI occurring in a patient with active chronic GVHD which resolved spontaneously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine I, University of Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schulenburg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herold
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eisenhuber
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Oberhuber
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Volc-Platzer
authors.forename: H T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Greinix
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Reiter
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Keil
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kalhs
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000209:etiology*; D011027:Pneumoperitoneum / Q000209:etiology*; D012188:Retropneumoperitoneum / Q000209:etiology*