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[Extra-pulmonary pneumocystosis in the course of AIDS. Report of a case]
1Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris.
Annales De Pathologie
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report a case of splenic pneumocystosis in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive individual treated prophylactically with aerosolized pentamidine. Despite this infection with Pneumocystis carinii, the bronchoalveolar lavage revealed no microorganisms. The use of aerosolized pentamidine as prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii is not protective against extrapulmonary pneumocystosis because of inadequate systemic distribution of the drug.