Case Report
Necrotizing Granulomatous Pneumocystis Infection Presenting as a Solitary Pulmonary Nodule: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Table 1
Clinical characteristics and diagnosis of eight patients with nodular granulomatous Pneumocystis jirovecci pneumonia.
| Patient number | Dako et al. 2019 | Lam et al. 2013 | Patel et al. 2016 | Kim et al. 2016 | Kim et al. 2015 | Paul 2018 | Moualla and Saeed 2014 | Dai et al. 2021 |
| Age | 49 | 49 | 61 | 47 | 69 | 68 | 37 | 59 | Gender | Female | Female | Male | Male | Female | Male | Male | Male | Symptoms | Dyspnea, cough | Cough, weight loss | Dyspnea, cough | Cough | Asymptomatic | Asymptomatic | Dyspnea, fever | Cough | Primary diagnosis | Peripheral T-cell lymphoma | Active smoker | DLBCL | HIV | DLBCL | Rectal cancer | Kidney transplant | CLL | Radiology | Multiple nodules | SPN | SPN | Multiple nodules | SPN | SPN | Multiple nodules, mediastinal LAD | SPN | Diagnostic procedure | BAL | VATS | VATS | VATS | VATS | VATS | EBUS-TBNA | VATS | Antibiotic treatment | TMP-SMX | TMP-SMX | Atovaquone | TMP-SMX | TMP-SMX | None | TMP-SMX | Pentamidine |
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Data pulled from references 1ā 3, 5ā 9. BAL: bronchoalveolar lavage; SPN: solitary pulmonary nodule; DLBCL: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; VATS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; LAD: lymphadenopathy; EBUS-TBNA: endobronchial ultrasound-transbronchial needle aspiration; CLL: chronic lymphocytic leukemia; TMP-SMX: trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. |