Author(s)

Kevin Persaud, Che Harris, Shweta Ramsahai

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, USA.
Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA.

We present a 39-year-old female with HIV, medication non-compliance, and recurrences of bacterial pneumonia. She presented with a two-day bout of worsening shortness of breath, dyspnea and productive cough. A CT of the chest was notable for multi-lobular pneumonia. She underwent flexible bronchoscopy and biopsy which revealed lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis. Conclusion: Recurrent bacterial pneumonia is a rare complication of lymphoid interstitial pneumonia (LIP) in HIV positive patients, and should be considered in the differential as a possible precipitator of recurrent pneumonia inan HIV positive patient.

HIV; AIDS; Lymphoid Interstitialpneumonia (LIP); Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonitis; Recurrent Pneumonia

Persaud, K. , Harris, C. and Ramsahai, S. (2013) Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia—Another consideration for recurrent bacterial pneumonia in an HIV positive patient (A case report). Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 2, 76-80. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2013.21021.