Abstracts tagged "Autoimmune diseases and infection"

Abstract Number: 1177 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia in Systemic Autoimmune Inflammatory Diseases
Shafay Raheel¹, Eric L. Matteson¹, Cynthia S. Crowson², Andrew Limper³, Eva M. Carmona Porquera³, Ulrich Specks⁴ and Misbah Baqir⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Pulmonary/Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is most frequently associated with AIDS, however, this infection also occurs in a variety of rheumatologic conditions in the context…