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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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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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Cytomegalovirus and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1989
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is complex in nature with one major aetiological factor but with numerous other agents exploiting the immune incompetence. Cytomegaloviruses (CMV) form a little-defined group of viruses which naturally persist in man and respond readily to the relaxation in immune surveillance.
A S, Tyms, D L, Taylor, J M, Parkin
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Myositis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Human Pathology, 1987
Clinical and pathologic observations made in a patient with inflammatory myopathy associated with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presented. Multinucleated giant cells were a prominent histopathologic feature in the muscle biopsy samples.
R O, Bailey, D I, Turok, B P, Jaufmann, J K, Singh   +3 more
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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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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Infants

New England Journal of Medicine, 1984
Fourteen infants with clinical and laboratory features of an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome were identified in a single metropolitan area from November 1980 to July 1983. Patients were predominantly of Haitian parentage, although two cases occurred in offspring of non-Haitian intravenous drug abusers.
G B, Scott, B E, Buck, J G, Leterman, F L, Bloom, W P, Parks   +4 more
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome of Childhood

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1987
AIDS of childhood is reviewed in this timely article, including care of the child with infectious complications, and other current and future management concerns.
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Plasmacytoma and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Excerpt The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is characterized by opportunistic infections and, in some patients, an aggressive form of Kaposi's sarcoma (1-4).
A M, Israel, B, Koziner, D J, Straus
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ETHICS AND ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME

Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, 1992
The integration into daily practice of a fully realized sense of medical ethics is one of the greatest possible sources of personal and professional fulfillment. It is also, for the profession as a whole, one of the two ultimate claims to continuing legitimacy and respect, the other being technical competence. Of these two, the greater is excellence in
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