Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report

We describe a 41-year-old African-American male who initially presented in respiratory distress. He had a positive history of asthma, cigarette smoking, and only recent possible asbestos exposure six months prior to onset of symptoms. Mesothelioma was suspected after chest radiography and PET-CT, an...

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Autores principales: James, Cleve Orian, Woods, Ashanti W, Arya, Payam, Abuelgasim, Khadega Ahmed, Heath, Lekidelu Taddesse, Sitapati, Amy
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Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7498
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author James, Cleve Orian
Woods, Ashanti W
Arya, Payam
Abuelgasim, Khadega Ahmed
Heath, Lekidelu Taddesse
Sitapati, Amy
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description We describe a 41-year-old African-American male who initially presented in respiratory distress. He had a positive history of asthma, cigarette smoking, and only recent possible asbestos exposure six months prior to onset of symptoms. Mesothelioma was suspected after chest radiography and PET-CT, and confirmed by immunohistochemical tissue analysis. We postulate that immunosuppression enhances susceptibility to mesothelioma, since weakened immune systems are present in both HIV/AIDS patients like this 41-year-old man, and elderly patients who compose the population that classically presents with mesothelioma. Furthermore, immunosuppression may be a prerequisite to the development of mesothelioma.
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spelling pubmed-27400402009-10-14 Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report James, Cleve Orian Woods, Ashanti W Arya, Payam Abuelgasim, Khadega Ahmed Heath, Lekidelu Taddesse Sitapati, Amy Cases J Case report We describe a 41-year-old African-American male who initially presented in respiratory distress. He had a positive history of asthma, cigarette smoking, and only recent possible asbestos exposure six months prior to onset of symptoms. Mesothelioma was suspected after chest radiography and PET-CT, and confirmed by immunohistochemical tissue analysis. We postulate that immunosuppression enhances susceptibility to mesothelioma, since weakened immune systems are present in both HIV/AIDS patients like this 41-year-old man, and elderly patients who compose the population that classically presents with mesothelioma. Furthermore, immunosuppression may be a prerequisite to the development of mesothelioma. Cases Network Ltd 2009-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2740040/ /pubmed/19829978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7498 Text en © 2009 James et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
James, Cleve Orian
Woods, Ashanti W
Arya, Payam
Abuelgasim, Khadega Ahmed
Heath, Lekidelu Taddesse
Sitapati, Amy
Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
title Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
title_full Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
title_fullStr Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
title_short Mesothelioma in an HIV/AIDS patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
title_sort mesothelioma in an hiv/aids patient without history of asbestos exposure: possible role for immunosuppression in mesothelioma: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7498
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