Specialized Proresolving Mediators in Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia

Overview

This study aims to evaluate specialized proresolving mediators (SPM) concentrations for the first time in subjects infected with Pneumocystis jirovecii. SPM will be measured in blood and urine in patients with favourable or unfavourable outcome of Pneumocystis pneumonia and in patients colonized by Pneumocystis jirovecii. The hypothesis is that low levels of SPM in the blood could be predictive of a negative outcome of pneumocystosis.

Pneumocystis pneumonia is a severe fungal disease threatening immunosuppressed subjects such as patients suffering from AIDS, oncohematological diseases or solid organ transplanted patients. The disease is characterized by an important inflammation in the infected lungs which is mainly responsible for lungs lesions. Despite an adequate treatment introduction, mortality is still around 20% which can not be explained by a treatment resistance. Specialized proresolving mediators (SPM), including lipoxins, maresins, protectins and resolvins, are newly described molecules implicated in the active process of inflammation resolution. The investigators hypothesis in this study is that high levels of SPM could be predictive of a good resolution of the harmful inflammation, thus a good evolution of the disease, in adequate pneumocystosis therapy conditions. On the contrary, low levels of SPM could be predictive of an unfavourable outcome despite a treatment targeting Pneumocystis jirovecii

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