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?

Clinical stages of AIDS
  • Early, acute (flu-like illness, seeding of lymphoid organs)
  • Middle, Chronic (viral replication, thrush, herpes, fever)
  • Final, crisis (many opportunistic infections)
AIDS defining infections and neoplasms
  • Protozoal and Helminthic Infections 
  • Fungal Infections 
  • Bacterial Infections 
  • Viral Infections 
  • Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin B-Cell lymphomas
Opportunistic infections = 80% of deaths in AIDS patients. 
  • P. carinii pneumonia
  • Disseminated Candidiasis
  • Atypical Mycobacteria
  • Cryptococcosis

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