Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia
Vol. 4, No. 4

Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)/Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia in HIV patient: A Case Report

Agustina, Dewi Rizki (Unknown)
Efiyanti, Christy (Unknown)
Yunihastuti, Evy (Unknown)

Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2017

Abstract

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) or pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia is an opportunistic infection that can occur in immunocompromised patients. In patients with HIV, PCP is the most common opportunistic infection especially in patients with CD4 cell counts less than 200 cell /ul. To diagnose a PCP is very difficult because symptoms, blood tests, and thoracic radiography are not pathognomonic for PCP. However, untreated PCP is almost always fatal. Trimethroprimsulfamethoxazole (TMX-SMX) orally or intravenously for 21 days is the drug of choice for managing PCP with or without HIV. This article discusses a case with patients with symptoms of dyspneu, unproductive cough, diagnosed with PCP and finally improvement with TMX-SMX therapy

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Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia
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Abbrev

publication:jpdi

Publisher

Universitas Indonesia

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

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Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia contains the publication of scientific papers that can fulfill the purpose of publishing this journal, which is to disseminate original articles, case reports, evidence-based case reports, and literature reviews in the field of internal medicine for internal medicine ...