Epstein-Barr virus associated with primary CNS lymphoma and disseminated BCG infection in a child with AIDS.
AIDS Reference Center, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez (HNRG), Virrey Arredondo 3231, 1426, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Background: AIDS patients are at increased risk of developing concurrent infections with viral, parasitic, fungal or mycobacterial organisms. They can present constitutional symptoms of fever and weight loss, either due to infections or an underlying lymphoma which may coexist.
Kaposi's sarcoma and central nervous system disease: a real association or an artifact of the control group? Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS.
Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS Statistical and Data Management Center, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0378, USA.
Objectives: To test the hypothesis that Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) protects against four central nervous system (CNS) diseases in HIV-1-infected individuals.
Influence of risk group and zidovudine therapy on the development of HIV encephalitis and cognitive impairment in AIDS patients.
Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Objective: To determine the associations between HIV encephalitis and other central nervous system (CNS) pathology, viral burden, cognitive impairment, zidovudine therapy and risk group in AIDS patients.
Design: Planned autopsy study in AIDS patients evaluated prospectively for numerous clinical parameters.
Grupo Cooperativo SIDA y Tumores de Madrid (Hospital 12 de Octubre).
Background: The aim of the present was to study the prevalence of non Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in AIDS patients as well as the clinicopathologic characteristics, response to treatment and survival.
Methods: From January 1984 to January 1991, 77 patients with NHL associated with AIDS diagnosed in 9 hospitals in Madrid were retrospectively studied.
Biology of disease and clinical aspects of AIDS-associated lymphoma: a review.
Northern Israel Oncology Centre, Haifa.