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Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection
Case series Patient: Male, 25 • Male, 30 Final Diagnosis: Kaposi sarcoma Symptoms: Oral lesions Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Infectious Diseases OBJECTIVE: Unusual clinical course BACKGROUND: Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a common condition in patients with human immunodeficiency virus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30042376 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.910004 |
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author | Fardin, Rafaela Barbirato Leite, Luiz Arthur Calheiros Bezerra, Luanna Mayara dos Santos Alves, Priscilla Maris Pereira dos Santos, Layanne Lima de Andrade Salvá, Marília Filho, Antônio Luiz Soares Moura Rezende Lima, Gilberto Salustiano de Amorim Matos, Juliana Ferreira, Sônia Maria Soares de Farias Costa, Ducy Lily Joazeiro |
author_facet | Fardin, Rafaela Barbirato Leite, Luiz Arthur Calheiros Bezerra, Luanna Mayara dos Santos Alves, Priscilla Maris Pereira dos Santos, Layanne Lima de Andrade Salvá, Marília Filho, Antônio Luiz Soares Moura Rezende Lima, Gilberto Salustiano de Amorim Matos, Juliana Ferreira, Sônia Maria Soares de Farias Costa, Ducy Lily Joazeiro |
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description | Case series Patient: Male, 25 • Male, 30 Final Diagnosis: Kaposi sarcoma Symptoms: Oral lesions Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Infectious Diseases OBJECTIVE: Unusual clinical course BACKGROUND: Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a common condition in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In these patients, the occurrence of KS is reduced by treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Fatal and disseminated KS is presented in two patients with HIV/AIDS. CASE REPORTS: A 25-year-old man and a 30-year-old man with HIV/AIDS presented with KS affecting the skin, oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, liver, lungs, kidneys, adrenal glands, and bone. Both patients had a rapidly deteriorating clinical course associated with a low CD4 count and developed respiratory failure and death. CONCLUSIONS: Fatal disseminated KS is associated with severe immunosuppression due to with a low CD4 count. The presentation of these two cases highlights the potentially aggressive clinical course of KS in patients with HIV/AIDS and reinforces the need for early diagnosis and rapid treatment with HAART. |
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spelling | pubmed-60714972018-08-02 Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fardin, Rafaela Barbirato Leite, Luiz Arthur Calheiros Bezerra, Luanna Mayara dos Santos Alves, Priscilla Maris Pereira dos Santos, Layanne Lima de Andrade Salvá, Marília Filho, Antônio Luiz Soares Moura Rezende Lima, Gilberto Salustiano de Amorim Matos, Juliana Ferreira, Sônia Maria Soares de Farias Costa, Ducy Lily Joazeiro Am J Case Rep Articles Case series Patient: Male, 25 • Male, 30 Final Diagnosis: Kaposi sarcoma Symptoms: Oral lesions Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Infectious Diseases OBJECTIVE: Unusual clinical course BACKGROUND: Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a common condition in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In these patients, the occurrence of KS is reduced by treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Fatal and disseminated KS is presented in two patients with HIV/AIDS. CASE REPORTS: A 25-year-old man and a 30-year-old man with HIV/AIDS presented with KS affecting the skin, oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, liver, lungs, kidneys, adrenal glands, and bone. Both patients had a rapidly deteriorating clinical course associated with a low CD4 count and developed respiratory failure and death. CONCLUSIONS: Fatal disseminated KS is associated with severe immunosuppression due to with a low CD4 count. The presentation of these two cases highlights the potentially aggressive clinical course of KS in patients with HIV/AIDS and reinforces the need for early diagnosis and rapid treatment with HAART. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2018-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6071497/ /pubmed/30042376 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.910004 Text en © Am J Case Rep, 2018 This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ) |
spellingShingle | Articles Fardin, Rafaela Barbirato Leite, Luiz Arthur Calheiros Bezerra, Luanna Mayara dos Santos Alves, Priscilla Maris Pereira dos Santos, Layanne Lima de Andrade Salvá, Marília Filho, Antônio Luiz Soares Moura Rezende Lima, Gilberto Salustiano de Amorim Matos, Juliana Ferreira, Sônia Maria Soares de Farias Costa, Ducy Lily Joazeiro Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
title | Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
title_full | Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
title_fullStr | Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
title_full_unstemmed | Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
title_short | Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Fatal Disseminated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection |
title_sort | fatal disseminated kaposi’s sarcoma in two patients with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection fatal disseminated kaposi’s sarcoma in two patients with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30042376 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.910004 |
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