Opportunistic Infections

Most AIDS Patients with TB and Low CD4 Have Atypical Radiographs

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 20th, 1995

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) should be suspected in AIDS patients presenting with CD4 counts less than 0.20x10⁹ cells/L and radiographic findings atypical for reactivation TB, according to a report from the University of Pennsylvania.

Pulmonary infection and tumor in the AIDS population have a variable clinical and radiographic presentation.

"The association between the radiographic presentation of pulmonary TB and CD4 T-lymphocyte count in the HIV infected patients was investigated in order to provide an empirical approach for early diagnosis, treatment and isolation of infected subjects," according to Mark D. Keiper and colleagues ("CD4 T...

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