Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis is rare and usually occurs in a patient with some underlying risk factor.
Risk factors for extrapulmonary pneumocytosis:
(1) AIDS
(2) hypogammaglobulinemia (congenital, acquired)
(3) thymic alymphoplasia
(4) severe cachexia
(5) hematologic malignancy (malignant lymphoma, leukemia)
(6) solid organ transplant
Severe immunosuppression would also probably count as a risk factor.
Rarely patients who do not have an apparent underlying disease may develop extrapulmonary pneumocystosis but
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