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Iatrogenic Thoracic Complications pp 35–47Cite as

Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Host

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Advances in the chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases, as well as increased use of immunosuppressive drug regimens for patients with organ transplants or with advanced collagen-vascular and immunologically mediated diseases, have resulted in a rapidly expanding population of immunosuppressed and myelosuppressed patients. It is clear that the lungs are a prime target for infection in these patients and that conventional approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia are not sufficient for this complication (1–8). To confound this problem, a number of noninfectious etiologies can account for fever and radiographic evidence for new lung infiltrates in such patients (1). Thus, “pneumonia” in the immunocompromised host must be considered a broad, generic term, rather than indicating lung infection.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, USA

    Peter G. Herman M.D. (Professor of Radiology Director) (Professor of Radiology Director)

  2. Division of Thoracic Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Peter G. Herman M.D. (Professor of Radiology Director) (Professor of Radiology Director)

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Pennington, J.E., Herman, P.G. (1983). Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Host. In: Herman, P.G. (eds) Iatrogenic Thoracic Complications. Radiology of Iatrogenic Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5446-1_3

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