Erschienen in:
20.12.2016 | Clinical Practice: Clinical Images
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Presenting as Mycobacterium Avium Complex Lymphadenitis
verfasst von:
Ashley Matusz-Fisher, MD, Wesley Bodie, DO, Thomas Montgomery, MD, FACP
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 6/2017
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Excerpt
A 46-year-old woman presented with dysphagia secondary to an esophageal stricture. She was incidentally found to have enlarged left supraclavicular lymph nodes. Six months earlier, she had been diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) during hospitalization for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. Her CD4 count was 1 cell/mm3; viral load was 171,579 copies/ml. She was started on antiretroviral therapy and prophylactic doses of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and azithromycin. …