Human immunodeficiency virus

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• Synonyms

  • HIV infection
  • HIV

• Causes

  • Intravenous drug abuse
  • Promiscuity
  • Unprotected sex
  • Tattooing
  • Needlestick injury
  • Blood transfusion

• Effects

  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  • HIV seroconversion illness
  • Persistent generalised lymphadenopathy
  • Lymphopaenia
  • Kaposi sarcoma
  • Burkitt lymphoma
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Cervical cancer
  • HIV-associated thrombocytopaenia
  • HIV encephalitis
  • Viral meningitis
  • Transverse myelitis
  • HIV-associated nephropathy
  • Infectious neuropathy
  • IgA nephropathy
  • Pancytopaenia
  • Positive a-ANCA
  • Seborrhoeic dermatitis0.0%
  • Cotton wool exudate
  • Bilateral parotid swelling
  • Adrenocortical insufficiency
  • Ichthyosis
  • Antiphospholipid syndrome
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Secondary biliary cirrhosis
  • Diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome0.0%
  • Congenital heart malformation7.0%

• Parents

  • Chronic viral infection
  • Retrovirus
  • Venereal disease
  • Blood-borne disease

• Treatments

  • Anti-retroviral agent