Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Due to Pneumocystis carinii in Type 1 Hyper-IgM Syndrome: A Case Report

Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Due to Pneumocystis carinii in Type 1 Hyper-IgM Syndrome: A Case Report

Background: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare diffuse lung disease. Reports of rare cases of PAP due to Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii) exist in infants with immunodeficiency diseases, but no cases have been reported to date in pediatric patients with type 1 hyper-IgM syndrome (HI...

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Main Authors: Fei Zhou Zhang, Jie Xin Yuan, Lu Qin, Lan Fang Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP)
Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii)
hyper IgM syndrome
type 1 (HIGM1)
CD40 ligand (CD40LG)
infant
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2020.00264/full

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