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The Epidemiology of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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In 1981 the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted an increase in the occurrence of two rare diseases Kaposis sarcoma (KS) and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Investigators at UCLA and New York reported that both of these diseases were occurring in homosexual men and noted a defect in cellular immunity.
D. P. Drotman, H. W. Haverkos
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients without acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: associated illness and prior corticosteroid therapy.

Mayo Clinic proceedings, 1996
OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical spectrum of immunosuppressive conditions and systemic corticosteroid therapy associated with the development of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a consecutive series of patients without acquired immunodeficiency ...
S. Yale, A. Limper
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Hemophilia and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
Excerpt To the editor: Approximately 2 years have elapsed since the first description of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in patients with classic hemophilia (factor VIII deficiency) (1).
Carl Krill, Charles E. Ross, Michael M. Lederman, Oscar D. Ratnoff, Lawrence M. Pass   +4 more
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NEUROPATHOLOGY OF ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 1988
Neuropathology of acquired immunodeficiency syndromeThe nervous system is involved in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infections and infestations, by neoplasms, and by several diseases of uncertain pathogenesis. The most common pathological abnormalities are the changes associated with the HIV agent itself, the ‘HIV subacute ...
R. L. Davis, Michael Gonzales
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Evidence for early central nervous system involvement in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. Studies with neuropsychologic testing and magnetic resonance imaging.

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1987
Although a high prevalence of central nervous system disease is seen in persons with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the natural history of brain involvement with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains poorly understood ...
Igor Grant, J. Atkinson, J. Hesselink, C. Kennedy, Richman Dd, S. Spector, McCutchan Ja   +6 more
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Romania

The Lancet, 1991
After the initial description of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Romania in late 1989, national AIDS case surveillance was established with a modified version of the World Health Organisation (WHO) clinical case definition. This modified case definition requires that AIDS cases have both clinical and serological evidence of human ...
N Beldescu, David L Heymann, Margaret J. Oxtoby, Z. Jezek, Laurentiu Zolotusca, R C Apetrei, A Calomfirescu, Bradley S. Hersh, A Gromyko, F Popovici   +9 more
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Vacuolar myelopathy pathologically resembling subacute combined degeneration in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1985
Twenty of 89 consecutive patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in whom autopsies were performed over a 3 1/2-year period had a vacuolar myelopathy that was most severe in the lateral and posterior columns of the thoracic cord. Light
C. Petito, B. Navia, E. Cho, B. Jordan, Daniel C. George, R. Price   +5 more
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ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME IN RWANDA

The Lancet, 1984
To evaluate acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in central Africa a prospective study was done in Kigali, Rwanda, where Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is endemic. During a 4 week period, 26 patients (17 males and 9 females) were diagnosed. 16 patients had opportunistic infections, associated with KS in only 2; 1 had multifocal KS alone; and 9 had clinical
Nathan Clumeck, AntonC. Hekker, Jean-Paul Butzler, Jos Bogaerts, Philippe Van de Perre, Rouvroy D, Joseph Kayihigi, Philippe Kestelyn, Philippe Lepage   +8 more
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Enteropathy associated with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1984
To explore the effect of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome on gastrointestinal structure and absorption, the cases of 12 homosexual men with the syndrome and 11 homosexual controls were studied.
D. Kotler, H. Gaetz, M. Lange, E. Klein, P. Holt   +4 more
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) associated with transfusions.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1984
Of 2157 patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) whose cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control by August 22, 1983, 64 (3 per cent) with AIDS and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia had no recognized risk factors for AIDS ...
J. Curran, D. Lawrence, H. Jaffe, J. Kaplan, L. D. Zyla, M. Chamberland, R. Weinstein, K. Lui, L. Schonberger, T. Spira   +9 more
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