Duodenal leishmaniasis in a HIV patient

Colonic leishmaniasis in a patient with HIV: a case report.

BACKGROUND To describe an unusual clinical presentation of visceral leishmaniasis affecting the colon. CASE REPORT We report the case of an HIV-positive patient with visceral leishmaniasis. We describe the clinical case, the procedures performed, the treatment provided and the patient's evolution. A comparative table of previously reported similar cases is shown. DISCUSSION Visceral leishma...

Stevens Johnson syndrome in a patient with HIV & visceral leishmaniasis

Unusual duodenal presentation of leishmaniasis.

This case report describes an atypical case of duodenal leishmaniasis in an elderly patient not infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Investigation of this 84 year old woman with a constitutional syndrome and dysphagia revealed anaemia of chronic disorder, a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinaemia. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed thickening of the st...

Cytomegalovirus infection in an HIV patient with duodenal papillitis.

A 52−year−old man had undergone appen− dectomy 2 months previously, at which time he was incidentally diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in− fection. One month later, he revisited the hospital, complaining of vague abdominal pain with intermittent watery diarrhea. A colonoscopy was carried out, revealing multiple small ulcers in the ascending and transverse colon, biopsies from w...

Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis due to Visceral Leishmaniasis in an HIV Patient

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis is an important opportunistic disease in HIV-positive patients. The information available on the effects of such co-infection in the kidney is limited. We describe a patient with HIV/leishmania coinfection who developed nephrotic syndrome and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. As far as we know, only 2 cases of this nephropathy in HIV/leishmania coinfect...