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[The gastrointestinal tract in H.I.V. patients. Anatomopathologic aspects of opportunistic infections]

Pathologica. 1989 Nov-Dec;81(1076):575-90. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/90245433
Villanacci V; Favret M; Marocolo D; Mangiarini M; Grigolato P; Cestari R; Ravelli P

Abstract: The symptoms of the Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (A.I.D.S.) in the gastrointestinal tract are principally represented by neoplastic processes (Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma) and by opportunistic infections. These infections, for the diversity of bacterial, viral or parasitic etiological agents which are involved, ask for new and more specific interpretative problems, from the pathological point of view-either in the identification of the pathogenic agents either in the recognition of infective lesions associated with the presence of a not directly objectivable infective agent. On the basis of these considerations the authors report the principal histopathological characteristics connected with opportunistic infections of the gastrointestinal tract in 18 H.I.V. positive patients. Of every segment of the gastrointestinal tract, the detected agents are described with the lesions related to them, the other not specific A.I.D.S. associated infective forms recently described in literature, and in particular the differential diagnostic problems connected with viral infections. In the large bowel must be underlined the problems and the principal distinctive elements between opportunistic agents derived colitis and idiopathic colitis.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/COMPLICATIONS/*PATHOLOGY Adult Aged Biopsy English Abstract Female Gastrointestinal Diseases/COMPLICATIONS/*PATHOLOGY Human Male Middle Age Opportunistic Infections/COMPLICATIONS/*PATHOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLEKWDacquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome/complications/KWDpathologyadultagedbiopsyenglishabstractfemalegastrointestinaldiseases/complications/KWDpathologyhumanmalemiddleageopportunisticinfections/complications/KWDpathologyjournalarticle
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