In total, 50% of patients with AIDS have small bowel pathology; it is a common site for opportunistic infection. Causes include CMV, Mycoba...
In total, 50% of patients with AIDS have small bowel pathology; it is a common site for opportunistic infection. Causes include CMV, Mycobacterium avium, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis and histoplasmosis.
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• Non-specific small bowel thickening and fat stranding.
• Ascites.
• Large ulcers are associated with CMV
• Important differentials are lymphoma and Kaposi sarcoma. ”
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