Conclusions
 
Symptoms & History

Physical Findings

Stop & Think

Lab and X-Ray

Differential Diagnosis

The Disease

Treatment

Conclusions

Quiz & Evaluation
 

What was the point of this exercise?

The three basic manifestations of HIV disease are:
  • Opportunistic infections
  • Emergence of neoplasms
  • Central nervous system involvement


Treatment and monitoring of AIDS rely on

  • clinical follow up (opportunistic infections, neoplasms etc.)
  • three-drug antiviral therapy
  • CD4+ T-cell counts
  • plasma viral load

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