Unexpected Diagnosis

A 74-year-old man presented to the ER with an eight-month history of shortness of breath, cough, anorexia, and weight loss. He had emigrated from sub-Saharan African to the USA, where he was diagnosed and treated for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke; was hospitalized several times;...

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Autores principales: Gill, Gauravpal S, Govindu, Rukma R, Fouda, Ragai, Ammar, Hussam M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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HIV/AIDS
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723526
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5767
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author Gill, Gauravpal S
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description A 74-year-old man presented to the ER with an eight-month history of shortness of breath, cough, anorexia, and weight loss. He had emigrated from sub-Saharan African to the USA, where he was diagnosed and treated for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke; was hospitalized several times; and underwent hernia surgery. Despite the complex care that he received in the USA for many years, the diagnosis of AIDS was continually missed for years, and the patient was eventually diagnosed at the age of 74.
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spelling pubmed-68254972019-11-13 Unexpected Diagnosis Gill, Gauravpal S Govindu, Rukma R Fouda, Ragai Ammar, Hussam M Cureus HIV/AIDS A 74-year-old man presented to the ER with an eight-month history of shortness of breath, cough, anorexia, and weight loss. He had emigrated from sub-Saharan African to the USA, where he was diagnosed and treated for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke; was hospitalized several times; and underwent hernia surgery. Despite the complex care that he received in the USA for many years, the diagnosis of AIDS was continually missed for years, and the patient was eventually diagnosed at the age of 74. Cureus 2019-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6825497/ /pubmed/31723526 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5767 Text en Copyright © 2019, Gill et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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