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Disseminated AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma

Author(s) -

Andy Sing Ong Tang,

Yeon Chiat Teh,

Chin Yung Chea,

Siaw Tze Yeo,

Hock Hin Chua

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

oxford medical case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169

H-Index - 9

ISSN - 2053-8855

DOI - 10.1093/omcr/omy107

Subject(s) - medicine , sarcoma , pleural effusion , kaposi's sarcoma , diarrhea , acute respiratory distress , respiratory distress , immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , dermatology , pathology , immunology , antiretroviral therapy , lung , viral load , surgery , human herpesvirus

We present a case of disseminated Kaposi's sarcoma with both cutaneous and extracutaneous involvement in an HIV-infected patient with a relatively high CD4 count of 369 cell/mm. He developed chronic diarrhea, constitutional symptoms, worsening bilateral pleural effusion with respiratory distress, and progression of skin lesions distributed over his chest and extremities. The temporal relationship between rapid clinical progression and initiation of HAART suggested the possibility of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, which eventually resulted in the death of this patient.

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