| Symptoms
& History
Physical
Findings
Stop
& Think
Lab
and X-Ray
Differential
Diagnosis
The
Disease
Treatment
Conclusions
Quiz
& Evaluation
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Clinical stages of AIDS
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Early, acute (flu-like illness,
seeding of lymphoid organs)
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Middle, Chronic (viral replication,
thrush, herpes, fever)
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Final, crisis (many opportunistic
infections)
AIDS defining infections
and neoplasms
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Protozoal and Helminthic Infections
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Fungal Infections
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Bacterial Infections
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Viral Infections
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Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin
B-Cell lymphomas
Opportunistic infections
= 80% of deaths in AIDS patients.
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P. carinii pneumonia
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Disseminated Candidiasis
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Atypical Mycobacteria
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Cryptococcosis
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