Management of Advanced HIV Disease

Occult miliary tuberculosis in advanced HIV disease.

Postpartum Morbidity Associated With Advanced HIV Disease

OBJECTIVE To investigate the postpartum morbidity and postpartum management of febrile morbidity associated with advanced HIV infection. METHODS A case control study of HIV infected women at a tertiary care center during January 2000-June 2005 was performed. Postpartum morbidity was defined as endometritis, blood transfusion, wound complication, readmission, infectious morbidity, or unexpecte...

Manifestations of HIV Disease in ENT (Otorhinolaryngology)

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Management of pain in advanced disease.

BACKGROUND Pain is common in advanced malignancy but also prevalent in other non-malignant life-limiting diseases such as advanced heart disease; end stage renal failure and multiple sclerosis. Patients with renal or liver impairment need specific consideration, as most analgesics rely on either or both for their metabolism and excretion. SOURCES OF DATA Recent evidence-based guidelines and t...

Prostate cancer: management of advanced disease.

Advanced prostate cancer is an incurable disease. Treatment objective is palliation only. The major observation is that prostate cancer is a hormone-sensitive tumour. Huggins and Hodges [1] were the first to demonstrate that castration and estrogen injection had therapeutic activity in men with metastatic prostate cancer. The most frequent metastatic sites in prostate cancer are bone (85%), lym...