Castlemans disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. We report a patient of Castlemans disease with advanced HIV infection who responded well to conventional HAART. This case is interesting because of the rarity of the disease in the eastern part of India and its good out come with antiretroviral therapy.

Objectives: Castleman’s disease (CD) is a group of rare atypical lymphoproliferative disorders classified as hyaline vascular (HV) and plasma cell (PC) types. CD may be closely mimicked by IgG4-related sclerosing disease (IgG4-SD) involving the lymph nodes. We retrospectively analyzed findings in patients with CD to elucidate the relationship between CD and IgG4-SD. Methods: Clinicopathological...

Abstract Introduction/Objective TAFRO syndrome (thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, reticulin fibrosis, and organomegaly) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder. First reported in 2010, the majority of cases are from Japan, where it currently regarded as subtype HHV8-negative Multicentric Castleman Disease. Methods/Case Report We report case occurring 17-year old Puerto Rico. She originally pr...

Twenty years after its discovery [1], Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) continues to be an enigmatic oncovirus, while AIDS-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma (AIDS-KS) remains a clinical challenge in endemic regions in Africa and for some patients receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) [2–4]. KSHV, a gamma-2 herpesvirus, is the etiological agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma (K...