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Braz J Microbiol
June 2024
Laboratório de Diversidade Microbiana da Amazônia Com Importância Para a Saúde, Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane - FIOCRUZ, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Histoplasmosis is commonly observed in AIDS patients as a neglected opportunistic disease that has an important relationship with environmental factors. The present study described the clinical characteristics of HIV/AIDS patients diagnosed with disseminated histoplasmosis in a tertiary healthcare facility in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, and evaluated the patients' homes and urban environmental samples as a source of exposure to Histoplasma capsulatum. A review of medical records from 2017 to 2019 of patients with HIV/AIDS associated with histoplasmosis was carried out, as well as the collection of environmental samples in the homes of these patients.
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August 2022
Department of Dermatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Beijing, 100730, People's Republic of China.
AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most common HIV-associated neoplasm. Disseminated Kaposi sarcoma became rare with the application of antiretroviral therapy. Oral AIDS-associated KS has prognostic relevance, indicating higher mortality than those with cutaneous lesions only.
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June 2022
WIR-Walk In Ruhr (WIR), Center for Sexual Health and Medicine, Bochum, Germany.
Background: Non-AIDS-associated chronic diseases in HIV+ patients have been on the rise since the advent of antiretroviral therapy. Especially cardiovascular diseases and disruption in the gastrointestinal tract have limited health-related quality of life (QoL). Several of those complications have been associated with chronic systemic inflammation.
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November 2021
Department of Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL.
Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare AIDS-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma, growing in the serous body cavities as a lymphomatous effusion. The endoscopic features of PEL can mimic Kaposi sarcoma (KS). We present a case where PEL presented as small intestinal masses which had a similar macroscopic appearance to KS.
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June 2020
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, USA.
Kaposi sarcoma is one of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) defining diseases. AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma affects primarily the skin and the lungs. Although gastrointestinal involvement is relatively common, biliary tract involvement has rarely been reported.
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