Study of pulmonary involvement in HIV-seropositive patients
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Background HIV causes diseases of respiratory system in various ways. The lung involvement may be of infective etiology or non-infective like Kaposi’s sarcoma or pulmonary hypertension. In India with the load of pulmonary tuberculosis, immuno-compromised patients are exposed to the risk of tuberculosis. This study endeavors to identify the patients who get lung involvement secondary to HIV infection and impact of CD4 cell count on the severity of tuberculosis in HIV positive patients.
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