BACKGROUND Opportunistic infections may occur when patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitors. With the increasing use of new immunosuppressant drugs, the incidence of opportunistic or atypical infections is also increasing, including
Most series of heart transplant patients report incidences of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) below 5% but do not individually describe the cases. From August 1988 to March 1994, 138 patients received 1 or more heart transplants at our institution. No anti-PCP chemoprophylaxis was provided, and