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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia due to corticosteroids
1Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
Southern Medical Journal
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A patient receiving long-term corticosteroid therapy for asthma had two episodes of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) 8 years apart. She had no other causes of immunosuppression. Experimental evidence indicates that corticosteroid administration causes a reduction in T lymphocytes mediated by suppression of cytokines. Corticosteroid therapy is a rare but possible independent predisposition to PCP.