Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and opportunistic infections
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Opportunistic Infections in Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
hemorheology. NMDA receptors, and calcium channel regulation, our ability to treat acute stroke has progressed more slowly than we would otherwise like. William Osler once remarked, "Know syphilis in all its manifestations and relations, and all things clinical will be added unto you." The same advice now holds true for AIDS-it affects every organ system and requires countless forms of therapy ...
متن کاملOpportunistic infections in patients with and patients without Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
In the next decade, longer survival of patients with cancer and more-aggressive therapies applied to common conditions, such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, will result in a larger population with significant immune system defects. Many in this population will be at risk for opportunistic infections, which are familiar to doctors who have treated people infected with human immunodeficiency ...
متن کاملOpportunistic infections in adults with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a comparison of clinical and autopsy findings.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Many opportunistic infections causing death in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients are often not diagnosed prior to death. The objective of this study was to compare the premortem and postmortem diagnoses of opportunistic infections and tumors among 15 AIDS patients treated in a hospital in southern Taiwan. METHODS Total autopsy (brain, chest and abdomina...
متن کاملAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
\s=b\Pneumocystis carinii antigen and IgG antibody profiles were prepared on 17 pediatric patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with pneumonia who were examined by a variety of invasive methods for P carinii organisms. Overall, the accuracy of the antigen assay in invasively examined pediatric patients with AIDS with pneumonia was 94% (sensitivity, 100%; specificity, 90%), as ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medicina
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1648-9144
DOI: 10.3390/medicina45110119