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SUBMITTER: Hagiwara S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4204540 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Intractable & rare diseases research 20140201 1
Reported here are 2 patients with connective tissue disease who developed pulmonary nocardiosis. Case 1 involved a 73-year-old man with malignant rheumatoid arthritis treated with prednisolone 25 mg/day. Chest X-rays revealed a pulmonary cavity and bronchoscopy detected Nocardia species. The patient was successfully treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. Case 2 involved a 41-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus. The patient received remission induction therapy with 50 mg/day of ...[more]