Adjunctive Corticosteroid Therapy Decreases Lung Permeability in Patients with AIDS-Related Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

Silvia Guillemi; Allan Belzberg; Lindsay M Lawson; Martin T Schechter; Julio SG Montaner

doi:10.1155/1995/806746

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 1995)

Adjunctive Corticosteroid Therapy Decreases Lung Permeability in Patients with AIDS-Related Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

Silvia Guillemi,
Allan Belzberg,
Lindsay M Lawson,
Martin T Schechter,
Julio SG Montaner

Affiliations

Silvia Guillemi: AIDS Research Program, Department of Medicine, Nuclear Medicine-Department of Laboratories, Respiratory Division, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Allan Belzberg: British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lindsay M Lawson: Department of Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Martin T Schechter: Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Julio SG Montaner: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/1995/806746
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 55 – 58

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy on lung permeability as measured by Tc-DTPA lung clearance scan in patients with AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crj/

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