Pneumonia in Pregnancy: Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia

Abstract

The incidence of pneumonia in pregnancy is not different from that in non-pregnant adults 20 to 40 year-old and has been reported in 1.1 to 2.7 per 1,000 deliveries. We report about a 36 year old African American woman presented to the emergency department with 2 week history of dry cough and increasing dyspnea on exertion. The differential diagnoses of severe CAP in this setting encompass both infectious and noninfectious etiologies. Considerations are atypical bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, Pneumocystis jiroveci (Pneumocystic carinii) pneumonia, aspiration pneumonitis, sarcoidosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and acute eosinophilic pneumonia.