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Patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

2010
This chapter provides an overview and update of the comprehensive care related to HIV/AIDS and addresses the palliative care needs of individuals and families living with and dying from this illness. With this information, nurses and other health-care professionals will gain the knowledge to provide effective and compassionate care, recognizing the ...
Deborah Witt Sherman, Carl Kirton
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and the Kidney

American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 1990
Initial autopsy studies concerned primarily with the systemic manifestations of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) did not indicate that significant renal problems were likely to occur in AIDS patients. However, several recent studies have suggested that important renal and electrolyte disorders develop frequently in at least some groups of ...
F D, Seney, D K, Burns, F G, Silva
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and the Eye

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1997
The special issue about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the eye in the July 1996Archiveswas interesting. Two questions are raised by this disease and its management. First, for the various manifestations of AIDS, what are the recommended follow-up intervals?
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The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Haiti

Journal of Urology, 1985
Two hundred twenty-nine patients in Haiti with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were studied between 1979 and 1984. The clinical spectrum of the syndrome in Haitians was similar in most aspects to that in patients with the disease in the United States.
JEAN W. PAPE, BERNARD LIAUTAUD, FRANCK THOMAS, JEAN-ROBERT MATHURIN, MARIE-MYRTHA A. ST. AMAND, MADELEINE BONCY, VERGNIAUD PEAN, MOLIERE PAMPHILE, A. CLAUDE LAROCHE, JACK DEHOVITZ, WARREN D. JOHNSON   +10 more
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Neurosyphilis in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Archives of Neurology, 1989
In a retrospective study encompassing 42 months (January 1984 through July 1987), 12 patients were identified as having both neurosyphilis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. These patients constituted 44% of the entire group meeting rigorous diagnostic criteria for neurosyphilis and 1.5% of all patients hospitalized with acquired immunodeficiency ...
D A, Katz, J R, Berger
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Hypertriglyceridemia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

The American Journal of Medicine, 1989
A relationship between the induction of hypertriglyceridemia by cytokines and the cachexia seen in chronic infection has been proposed by other investigators. Since patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) often experience progressive tissue wasting, we decided to examine serum lipid levels and body cell mass in patients with AIDS ...
C, Grunfeld, D P, Kotler, R, Hamadeh, A, Tierney, J, Wang, R N, Pierson   +5 more
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Malignancies in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Current Problems in Cancer, 1987
Aside from opportunistic infections, several neoplasms have been identified as part of the spectrum of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as defined by the Centers for Disease Control. Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) was the first such neoplasm to be recognized within the spectrum of AIDS.
A M, Levine, P S, Gill, F, Muggia
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Prevention of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Excerpt To the editor: In the February 1982 issue, Reiner and associates (1) presented evidence for parenteral transmission of hepatitis B virus via sexual contact among homosexual men.
A E, Pitchenick, M A, Fischl
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Coccidioidomycosis in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1987
Of 27 patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Tucson, Arizona, 7 had concurrent coccidioidomycosis. Early manifestations of infection in 6 patients included diffuse nodular pulmonary infiltrates and Coccidioides immitis in many extrathoracic sites.
D A, Bronnimann, R D, Adam, J N, Galgiani, M P, Habib, E A, Petersen, B, Porter, J W, Bloom   +6 more
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Cryptococcosis in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
The clinical course and response to therapy of 27 patients with cryptococcosis and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were reviewed. Cryptococcosis was the initial manifestation of the syndrome in 7 patients, and the initial opportunistic infection in an additional 7. Meningitis was the commonest clinical feature (18 patients).
JOSEPH A. KOVACS, ANDREA A. KOVACS, MICHAEL POLIS, W. CRAIG WRIGHT, VEE J. GILL, CARMELITA U. TUAZON, EDWARD P. GELMANN, H. CLIFFORD LANE, ROBERT LONGFIELD, GARY OVERTURF, ABE M. MACHER, ANTHONY S. FAUCI, JOSEPH E. PARRILLO, JOHN E. BENNETT, HENRY MASUR   +14 more
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