We report the case of an HIV-seropositive patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the small intestine who presented with an ileocolic intussusception. This lesion fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for primary gastrointestinal lymphoma. Such a neoplasm in an immuno-compromised patient is usually more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than in an HIV-seronegative patient.

BACKGROUND Populations at highest risk for HIV infection face multiple barriers to HIV testing. To facilitate HIV testing procedures, the San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center eliminated required written patient consent for HIV testing in its medical settings in May 2006. To describe the change in HIV testing rates in different hospital settings and populations after the change in HIV t...

Aim: Antiretroviral is the main key to improving quality of life and among ways prevent transmission diseases due HIV. In use drugs in long term, psychosocial problems that arise often become barriers patient adherence. This paper aims show various forms application see benefits derived from mobile health (m-Health) increasing adherence HIV positive patients. Method: The method used a review jo...

Abstract The aim of the present article is to report case a young patient with bowenoid papulosis who was carrier other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), such as HIV and high-grade vulva lesion (usual-type vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, VIN), demonstrate strategy used manage case, well discuss important issues regarding standardization lesions.8

Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) infection is geographically restricted, affecting West African countries such as Guinea- Bissau and Cape Verde. We describe a recent case of HIV-2 infection in an Italian patient. Phylogenetic analysis of the V3 region of HIV-2 indicated that the Italian patient was infected by HIV-2 subtype A2. The sequence obtained from the Italian patient clustered...

OBJECTIVE Based on US. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, New York State enacted legislation in 2010 requiring healthcare providers to offer non-targeted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing to all patients aged 13-64. Three New York City adult emergency departments implemented an electronic alert that required clinicians to document whether an HIV test was offere...

Introduction: An organic disorder is defined as psychiatric syndromes, the fundamental manifestations of which are direct consequence a known anatomophysiological alteration brain. HIV neurotropic virus, infects central nervous system early. Despite widely high prevalence HIV-related brain atrophy, presence psychotic symptoms rare. Case report: This 28-year-old patient with recent diagnosis Wes...

The occurrence of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in HIV-infected patients has been reported in only five cases. Due to a very small number of reported HIV/APL patients who have been treated with different therapies with the variable outcome, the prognosis of APL in the setting of the HIV-infection is unclear. Here, we report a case of an HIV-patient who developed APL and upon treatment ente...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment represents a potent tool for addressing racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care, particularly for chronic conditions such as HIV infection that require active patient engagement. This multimodal intervention, developed in concert with HIV patients and clinicians, aims to provide HIV patients with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and tools to be...

In the present case report we describe the functional outcome of a patient with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) on treatment with antiretroviral therapy. Neuropsychological tests and structural magnetic resonance imaging were obtained at baseline and again after 12 months to define the severity of white matter damage associated with PML. D...