abstract：:The objective of this study was to describe the AIDS-defining conditions (ADC) and survival experience of pediatric AIDS cases (< 13 years age) reported in Puerto Rico. A descriptive analysis of the data gathered by the Puerto Rico AIDS Surveillance System was performed. Data for the 377 pediatric AIDS cases reported ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Perez-Perdomo R,Perez-Cardona CM,Suarez-Perez EL

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral folliculitis is an infrequently reported entity. We describe two patients with viral folliculitides, including a case of herpetic sycosis caused by herpes simplex (HSV) and a case of herpes zoster (HZ) without blisters. Clinicians should consider viral etiologies in the differential diagnosis of superficial infe...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Weinberg JM,Turiansky GW,James WD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses some of the issues specifically associated with women and HIV. The myth is that women do not get AIDS and that lesbians do not get AIDS either. It also explores the unique sociocultural context in which HIV-infected women exist. The hope is to put faces on the numbers that are increasing each da...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Broun SN

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to document the prevalence of facial lipodystrophy in patients with HIV infection receiving protease inhibitors and to identify associated factors. All patients with HIV infection receiving protease inhibitors seen at an HIV clinic in Hong Kong during a 2-month period, from August to ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Ho TT,Chan KC,Wong KH,Lee SS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal ulcerations in persons infected with HIV have many causes, the most common being opportunistic infections and neoplasms. Recently, idiopathic ulcerative lesions of the colon and rectum have been described. Two cases are reported of idiopathic colonic and anorectal inflammation and ulceration which fai...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Fu CS,Conteas CN,LaRiviere MJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the end of the 1980s, primary anti-Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis has become a fundamental part of the global AIDS control strategy in industrialized countries. The widespread adoption of anti-PCP chemoprophylaxis has been a key element in prolonging the survival of patients with AIDS. There is...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Bonora S,Di Perri G,Vento S,Cazzadori A,Concia E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, major advances have been made in the field of primary HIV-1 infection. Several studies have reevaluated the clinical syndrome. The emergence of new molecular laboratory techniques has permitted a detailed analysis of viral dynamics and subsequent immunologic changes. Measurements of subsets of T...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Kaufmann GR,Duncombe C,Zaunders J,Cunningham P,Cooper D

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complications of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination have been reported in immunocompetent as well as in immunocompromised individuals. Severe and/or late complications have been associated with impairment of cell-mediated immunity. A case of BCG lymphadenitis in a vertically infected HIV-positive boy 9.5 years...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Hofstadler G,Schmitt K,Tulzer G,Binder L,Brandstetter B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and HIV infection are frequently coincident. The diagnosis of PID can be more difficult to make in HIV-infected than in uninfected women. In general, HIV-infected women with PID have a good response to standard intravenous antibiotic therapy. However, surgical therapy is more frequent...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Korn AP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections of the liver and biliary tract are common during the course of AIDS. A variety of viral, bacterial, fungal, and other opportunistic infections can present with hepatobiliary involvement as either the primary site of infection or secondary to a disseminated process. Coinfection with hepatitis B and C are par...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Keaveny AP,Karasik MS

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report an 18-year-old girl with HIV infection who developed new-onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in association with anemia. IDDM among patients with HIV infection has been infrequently reported and suggested to be caused by different etiologies. Susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, such ...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Abdel-Khalek I,Moallem HJ,Fikrig S,Castells S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV share the same parenteral routes of transmission. This common epidemiology explains the high frequency of combined infections by HCV and HIV. The aim of this review is to clarify some important issues dealing with the reciprocal impact of HIV and HCV-associated infections, including the...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Zylberberg H,Pol S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author presents the case history of the first patient with HIV-1 group O reported in the United States. The various human retroviruses and their clinical syndromes are described and the increasing diversity of HIV-1 strains and their spread are documented. The discovery of the divergent group O and its spread from...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Gould K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare but well-described complication of HIV infection, which occurs equally frequently during the early asymptomatic phase of HIV infection and with clinical AIDS. The clinical spectrum varies from a low-grade asymptomatic thrombocytopenia with mild renal insufficiency to...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Sood R,Rakkar AS,Carmosino L,Mir T,Khan FA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent air leak and failure of the lung to expand completely after closed thoracostomy complicate the course of spontaneous pneumothorax in patients with AIDS. In such cases, attempts to discontinue chest tube drainage may fail. The following is a case of a patient with AIDS and spontaneous pneumothorax who respon...

journal_title：AIDS patient care and STDs

authors： Gerst PH,Mukherjee A,Rosario PG,Albu E

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00