A case ofPneumocystispneumonia, with a granulomatous response and vitamin D‐mediated hypercalcemia, presenting 13 years after renal transplantation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Scott W Aesif; Kristine M. Matson; Lindsay N. Taylor
- Source
- Transplant Infectious Disease. 21:e13081
- Subject
- musculoskeletal diseases
Vitamin
Transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system diseases
business.industry
nutritional and metabolic diseases
030230 surgery
Pneumocystis pneumonia
medicine.disease
Gastroenterology
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
Infectious Diseases
chemistry
Internal medicine
Granuloma
Vitamin D and neurology
Medicine
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
Complication
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
- Language
- ISSN
- 1399-3062
1398-2273
Vitamin D-mediated hypercalcemia is an uncommon complication of Pneumocystis infection. A granulomatous response resulting from Pneumocystis infection is also atypical. In this report, we describe an exceptional case of granulomatous Pneumocystis pneumonia associated with vitamin D-mediated hypercalcemia, in a patient who presented unusually late after renal transplantation. The patient's hypercalcemia resolved with treatment of the infection.