Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...

A male patient is described with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) who developed chronic keratoconjunctivitis and chronic sinusitis due to infection with the microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Diagnosis was confirmed by electron microscopic examination of conjunctival epithelial cells and nasal polypectomy specimens. Treatment with propamidine isethionate 0.1% (Brolene) eye drops...

T he acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the most recent addition to the long list of primary and secondary immune deficiencies. Unfortunately, it has rapidly become the most common immune deficiency diagnosed in the United States today. Between the first report in 1981 and early 1984, over 3,000 cases of AIDS were recorded by the Centers for Disease Control.’ This article reviews the ...

Toxoplasma gondii infection is an uncommon cause of pneumonitis in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). We report a case of fatal pulmonary toxoplasmosis, which clinically resembled Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Conventional diagnostic methods for toxoplasmosis lack sensitivity. Bronchoscopy and histological evaluation of transbronchial biopsy specimens failed to id...

Unilateral infranuclear facial palsy developed in three young homosexual men. All three were positive for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Two had persistent generalised lymphadenopathy, but the clinical criteria for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) were not fulfilled. There were no features of generalised neuropathy, and no other cause for facial palsy was eviden...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...

In humans, Rhodococcus equi (R. equi) is a zoonotic infection usually involving immunocompromised subjects, only rarely affecting immunocompetent subjects. Herein, we describe an R. in 50-year-old Russian man with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) who presented pulmonary cavitary lesions and clinical manifestation of colonic malakoplakia. A colonoscopy examination showed ulceration muc...