Publications by authors named "Renping Peng"
Gastrointestinal Talaromyces marneffei infection in a man with AIDS: A case report.
Medicine (Baltimore)
April 2023
Rationale: Reports of intestinal Talaromyces marneffei infection have increased year by year, but those of gastric infection remain rare. Here, we report disseminated talaromycosis with gastric and intestinal ulcers in an AIDS patient who was treated by antifungal agents and a proton pump inhibitor and achieved a satisfactory outcome.
Patient Concerns: A 49-year-old man developed a gastrointestinal illness with main abdominal distension, poor appetite and a positive HIV infection to our AIDS clinical treatment center.
Article Synopsis
- Intestinal Talaromyces marneffei (TM) infection is rare but has been observed in 31 HIV/AIDS patients in Guangxi, showing common symptoms like fever and abdominal lymphadenopathy.
- Most affected patients had severely low CD4 T-cell counts (<50 cells/μL), indicating a compromised immune system.
- TM was found in blood and bone marrow samples, and all patients had evidence of fungal spores in tissues, suggesting the need to consider TM infection in similar HIV-infected patients with significant gastrointestinal symptoms.