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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
5
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1990-2-9
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| pubmed:abstractText |
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) seems to be related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is characterized by severe T-helpers lymphocyte dysfunction. Many of the AIDS patients (47-70%) develop pulmonary manifestations, both infectious and neoplastic, in the course of their disease. In the Department of Infectious Diseases of our Hospital are studied many patients HIV+. Every year 246 seropositive new patients have been discovered. Among them we have studied 25 subjects with respiratory disease, by chest radiographs; successively, according to clinical picture, we have performed thoracic computed tomography, Gallium scintigraphy, fiberoptic bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy (TBB), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL); the majority of these patients (68%) had AIDS, only 28% had ARC and 4% had PGL. In our experience, the diagnosed diseases were mainly infections (92%), and most frequently (52%) due to Pneumocystis carinii, alone or in association with other etiologic agents. We have not found pathognomonic radiographic abnormalities, but chest X-ray evaluated with clinical and laboratory data, may often be useful to obtain diagnostic indications and in order to determine a more specific and aggressive diagnostic approach.
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| pubmed:language |
ita
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Nov
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| pubmed:issn |
0033-8362
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
78
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
461-72
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2008-10-21
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-AIDS-Related Complex,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Adolescent,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Biopsy,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Bronchoscopy,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Lung Diseases,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Lung Neoplasms,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Lymphoma,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Pneumonia,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Pneumonia, Pneumocystis,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Radiography, Thoracic,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Sarcoma, Kaposi,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Thoracic Diseases,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Tomography, X-Ray Computed,
pubmed-meshheading:2608934-Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
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| pubmed:year |
1989
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
[Thoracic manifestations of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)].
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Istituto di Radiologia Università, Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Comparative Study,
English Abstract
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