Chest Email Content Delivery
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Wasser, L
Right arrow Articles by Talavera, W
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Wasser, L
Right arrow Articles by Talavera, W

Chest, Vol 92, 692-695, Copyright © 1987 by American College of Chest Physicians

ARTICLES

Pulmonary cryptococcosis in AIDS

L Wasser and W Talavera
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York 10003.

Cryptococcus neoformans is emerging as an important etiologic agent of disseminated infection in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Little attention has been placed on the pulmonary expression of this systemic infection. We report five patients with AIDS and cryptococcosis with primary pulmonary involvement. Patients usually presented with fever, cough, dyspnea, and pleuritic chest pain. Chest x-ray findings varied from localized and diffuse infiltration to lymphadenopathy and pleural effusions. All patients developed disseminated disease despite antifungal therapy. Pulmonary cryptococcosis is a frequent presentation of this infection in patients with AIDS.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 NEJMHome page
N. Basgoz and A. R. Mattia
Case 4-1994- A 38-Year-Old Man with AIDS and the Recent Onset of Diarrhea, Hematochezia, Fever, and Pulmonary Infiltrates
N. Engl. J. Med., January 27, 1994; 330(4): 273 - 280.
[Full Text]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1987 by the American College of Chest Physicians.