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Abstract: BACKGROUND: The State of Rio Grande do Sul has been a histoplasmosis-endemic area of Brazil . Histoplasmosis is an opportunistic fungal infection, which has been increasing as a consequence of HIV infection and may be the presenting disease of AIDS. A range of clinical manifestations of cutaneous histoplasmosis in HIV/ ...
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Abstract: Histoplasmosis is diagnosed in 2-5% of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the endemic areas in the United States . Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia has been the most common opportunistic infection in patients with AIDS. Both diseases carry a significant morbidity a ...
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Abstract: Histoplasmosis is diagnosed in 2-5% of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the endemic areas in the United States . Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia has been the most common opportunistic infection in patients with AIDS. Both diseases carry a significant morbidity and mortality if untreated or inap ...
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Abstract: PURPOSE: Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis is now diagnosed frequently in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) living in the central United States . Previous review articles of AIDS have failed to mention this infection. Herein, we describe 48 AIDS patients ...
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Abstract: Disseminated histoplasmosis is a common late manifestation of AIDS, but the diagnosis may be unsuspected in some patients because the clinical presentation of histoplasmosis may mimic other opportunistic infections. High serum lactate dehydrogenase LDH) levels have been associated with disseminated histoplasmosis. We ...
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Abstract: NIAID) Histoplasmosis. Office of Communications National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 Public Health Service U.S. Department of Health and Human Services November 1994Histoplasmosis is an infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum, a fungus t ...
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Abstract: Recurrent outbreaks of histoplasmosis in Indianapolis since 1978 have expanded our understanding of histoplasmosis. Histoplasmosis has emerged as the leading opportunistic infection in patients with AIDS from Indianapolis. Clinical manifestations of histoplasmosis are influenced by host factors. Underlying lung diseas ...
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Abstract: The published reports of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with disseminated histoplasmosis come mostly from institutions located in endemic areas for histoplasmosis, where disease is thought to occur by either primary infection or reactivation. The characteristics of reactivation disease are ...
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Abstract: We assessed the efficacy of oral fluconazole (200-800 mg daily) in the treatment of non-life-threatening acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis, or disseminated histoplasmosis in patients without human immunodeficiency virus infection. Of 27 evaluable patients, two had progressive acute pulmo ...
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Abstract: Disseminated histoplasmosis is an AIDS-defining illness that occurs in about 5% of AIDS patients residing in histoplasmosis-endemic areas of the United States (the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys). This disease develops as a result of acute infection and perhaps also as the result o ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To determine the annual incidence of histoplasmosis in patients [pts] with HIV infection residing in an endemic area; to identify risk factors for histoplasmosis. METHODS: 305 HIV-seropositive pts in Kansas City were followed for a median period of 20.1 months and were monitored for evidence of histoplasmo ...
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Abstract: </p> <p><b>OBJECTIVES</b>: To determine the annual incidence of histoplasmosis in patients [pts] with HIV infection residing in an endemic area; to identify risk factors for histoplasmosis.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: 305 HIV-seropositive pts in Kansas City were followed for a median period of 20.1 months and were monitor ...
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Abstract: This study evaluates the use of a enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the diagnosis of histoplasmosis and it compares it with a complement fixation test. The results showed a sensitivity of 86% in this diagnosis of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis and specificity of 91% using anti-human IgG. For antihuman IgM ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To describe uncommon manifestations of histoplasmosis in AIDS. METHODS: 1) Identification of cases through a) computer search of discharge diagnosis of histoplasmosis and b) review of infectious diseases consult service and pathology records for the period 1988-91. 2) Retrospective chart review. RESULTS: We ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>: To describe uncommon manifestations of histoplasmosis in AIDS.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: 1) Identification of cases through a) computer search of discharge diagnosis of histoplasmosis and b) review of infectious diseases consult service and pathology records for the period 1988-91. 2) Retrospective ...
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Abstract: Disseminated histoplasmosis is being diagnosed more frequently in persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus and is often the initial manifestation of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Disease-related cutaneous features of HIV-associated disseminated histoplasmosis are defined as mucocutaneous ...
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Abstract: Very commonly encountered in the United States , histoplasmosis is rare in Europe, where only 27 patients have so far been infected by this mycosis. In Africa, two varieties of histoplasmosis have been observed: those due to H. capsulatum and H. duboisii. Histoplasmosis due to H. capsul ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: High index of suspicion is necessary for early diagnosis of disseminated histoplasmosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome . We designed an analysis to examine patterns and reasons for hospital admissions over time and to identify clinical features and laboratory in disseminated histoplasmo ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> Laryngeal Histoplasmosis was first described in 1952. Since then, fewer than 100 cases had been reported. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> We report a 30-year-old woman, IDU, with prolonged fever > 102 F persisting > 6 weeks, weight loss, disphagia, upper respiratory symptoms who developed laryngitis wi ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To analyse the prognostic factors of histoplasmosis in patients at AIDS clinical stage in French Guiana . DESIGN: Prospective study. METHODS: 23 HIV patients with a diagnosis of disseminated histoplasmosis and receiving a ...
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Abstract: Histoplasmosis is an important cause of morbidity and death in HIV-infected patients. Significant developments concerning the diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and prophylaxis of histoplasmosis are discussed. Itraconazole is highly effective at both inducing and maintaining remission in mild to moderate cases of dissem ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> to describe the evolutive-clinical features of AIDS-associated histoplasmosis in Uruguay-South America. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> a restrospective analysis of medical records of 803 patients with AIDS, assisted in two centers which provide health care to them at Montevideo city from october of 198 ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVES:</b> To analyse the prognostic factors of histoplasmosis in patients at AIDS clinical stage in French Guiana . <p><b>DESIGN:</b> Prospective study. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> 23 HIV patients with a diagnosis of disseminated histoplasmosis and receiving antifungical therapies were included in th ...
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Abstract: Histoplasmosis is a common opportunistic infection in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection who reside in areas where Histoplasma capsulatum is endemic. We undertook a prospective study of a cohort of 304 HIV-Infected patients in Kansas City from October 1990 through March 1993 to define the incid ...
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Abstract: Objective: To describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics of AIDS patients diagnosed with Disseminated Histoplasmosis (DH) in San Juan de Dios Hospital in Guatemala . Methods: Medical records of AIDS patients hospitalized from 1985 to 1994 were retrieved and evaluated t ...
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Abstract: To describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics of AIDS patients diagnosed with Disseminated Histoplasmosis (DH) in San Juan de Dios Hospital in Guatemala . <p><b>METHODS</b>: Medical records of AIDS patients hospitalized from 1985 to 1994 were retrieved and evaluated to obtain clinical information about the ...
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Abstract: Histoplasmosis is particularly common in Missouri, and many important clinical observations about the disease were made in this state in the 1950s and 1960s. When the AIDS epidemic spread to Missouri in the mid-1980s, histoplasmosis became recognized as a common and important opportunistic infection among Missourians ...
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Abstract: A 46-year-old homosexual man with disseminated histoplasmosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had a histoplasmosis-related ulcerated verrucous plaque above his left upper lip; systemic and cutaneous disease manifestations of histoplasmosis resolved with daily ketoconazole therapy. Disseminated histopl ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>: To describe two patients with AIDS who developed fatal disseminated histoplasmosis while receiving fluconazole.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: Retrospective chart review of two patients who had been prospectively followed by the authors.</p> <p><b>RESULTS</b>: (Patient #1) Thirty-six year old male with ...
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Abstract: Colonic histoplasmosis is a rare entity. There have been four previous reported cases within the population of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Because of the increasing incidence of HIV infection within regions where histoplasmosis is endemic, this condition may become more common. Gastroin ...
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