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| Barone,Bianca; Kreuzig,Patrícia Lago; Gusmão,Patricia Medeiros; Chamié,Daniel; Bezerra,Sabrina; Pinheiro,Pedro; Coscarelli,Pedro; Paiva,Daurita; Fonseca,Leila; Marsico,Anna; Cirigliano,André; Perez,Mário. |
| We describe a case of a male patient, 38 years old, HIV-positive (most recent CD4 count about 259/mm³), with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, weight loss, and vespertine high fever with chills. His hemogram showed normocytic and normochromic anemia, with a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and gross granulations in the neutrophils. Transaminases were normal. Bone marrow biopsy evidenced a chronic disease anemia pattern and a lack of infectious agents. Abdominal ultrasound examination showed a normal-size spleen, which exhibited heterogeneous parenchyma and multiple small hypoechoic images, together with small ascites, peripancreatic and para-aortic lymphadenopathy. These findings were confirmed by abdominal CT. The liver was normal in... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: Tuberculosis; HIV; Treatment. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000200014 |
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