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Table 2 Class I and class II discrepancies

From: Premortem clinical diagnoses and postmortem autopsy findings: discrepancies in critically ill cancer patients

   

N

 

Opportunistic

VRE pneumonia

2

 

infections

Legionella pneumonia

1

 

(n = 10)

PCP pneumonia

1

  

Invasive aspergillosis

1

  

Candida empyema

1

Class I

 

VZV meningoencephalitis

1

discrepancies

 

HSV esophagitis

1

(n = 15)

 

CMV pneumonia

1

  

Disseminated necrotizing toxoplasmosis

1

 

Cardiac

Ischemic cardiomyopathy

2

 

complications

Thrombotic endocarditis

2

 

(n = 5)

  
  

Congestive heart failure

1

 

Cardiopulmonary

Pulmonary embolism

4

Class II

complications

  

discrepancies

(n = 7)

Thrombotic endocarditis

2

(n = 10)

 

Pulmonary hemorrhage

1

 

Opportunistic

Candidemia

1

 

infections (n = 3)

VRE meningitis

1

  

CMV proctitis

1

  1. CMV, cytomegalovirus; HSV, herpes simplex virus; PCP, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; VRE, vancomycin-resistant enterococcus; VZV, varicella-zoster virus.
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