High-flow nasal cannula therapy reduced intubation rates in critically ill Pneumocystis pneumonia patients, though survival benefits were not observed, in a multicenter retrospective analysis.

PJP was associated with high mortality and low prophylaxis rates among immunocompromised patients without HIV infection.

Pneumocystis pneumonia, is an infection that can be life-threatening for people whose immune systems are suppressed by medications for autoimmune diseases, including connective tissue diseases.

Additionally, the fungus pneumocystis jirovecii can lead to a serious condition called pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised people, such as people with HIV or recent organ recipients.

PCP Pneumonia is most easily contracted in people with HIV, so Lopez was not surprised when doctors had him undergo blood tests. But Lopez was shocked when the results were returned. "I was in the ...

Few cases of atypical pneumonia will present with severe hypoxemia and this level of chronicity. This type of presentation of PCP was commonly seen early in the HIV epidemic.

“Forty years ago, CDC first reported on Pneumocystis pneumonia in five previously healthy young gay men in Los Angeles. “Over the next five years, 29,000 cases of HIV/AIDS were reported in the ...

His manner of death was also ruled to be natural. Both Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) and Cryptococcus neoformans are fungal infections that affect people with weakened immune systems.

In the period October 1980-May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3 different hospitals in Los Angeles, California.

Par Pharmaceutical Gets Rights for Immtech Pharmaceuticals's Pneumocystis Pneumonia Drug WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 12 -- Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. today announced it has entered into an ...

Rheumatology > General Rheumatology Pneumocystis Often Lethal in Dermatomyositis — Incidence of pneumonia high in MDA5-antibody-positive patients by Nancy Walsh, Contributing Writer, MedPage ...

Immtech Pharmaceuticals granted Par Pharmaceutical an exclusive license to commercialize its treatment of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in AIDS patients in the U.S. Pafuramidine maleate is the ...