Falling down and following up.
Falling down and following up.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60645-x
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发表时间:
2012-09-08
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
Hu, Feng-Yu
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作者:
Wang, Charles;Cai, Wei-Ping;Tucker, Joseph D.;Li, Ling-Hua;Hu, Feng-Yu
In August, 2011, a 38-year-old man presented to his local doctor in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, China, with generalised fatigue. He had had fever for 2 weeks, a nonproductive cough, and a 5 kg weight loss. He was treated with antibiotics for 3 days, but the fever continued. He fainted twice at work, falling to the ground. He was taken to the local hospital by his coworkers. Because he admitted to having had unprotected sex with commercial sex workers, an HIV test was done. HIV ELISA was positive, and he went to the local Centre for Disease Control and Prevention clinic for a confirmatory Western blot. He continued to have nightly fevers and developed lesions on his face, trunk, and back. A week later, when the Western blot test result was returned positive, he was referred to our provincial HIV clinic in Guangzhou. On examination, our patient had several 1 to 3 mm erythematous papules on the face, neck, trunk, and back with a single 3 cm necrotic lesion above his lips (figure A). His temperature was 40· 3 C, and pulse rate was 104 beats per min. He had pale conjunctiva. There was no lymphadenopathy, and the respiratory examination was normal. He had a CD4 cell count of 10 cells per μL, white blood cell count of 5· 46× 10⁹ cells per L, haematocrit of 21%, and platelet count of 26× 10⁹ cells per L. Radio graph of the chest showed no evidence of infiltrates. A diagnosis of penicilliosis with syncope due to anaemia was made. Treatment with 2 weeks of intravenous amphotericin B deoxycholate was initiated. Blood cultures at 25 C on Sabouraud dextrose agar grew fungus that produced red pigment spreading into the agar. Septated cigar-shaped yeast was seen on microscopy of a bone marrow biopsy sample (figure B). He was dis charged with itraconazole, cotrimoxazole, and HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART). At last follow-up in February, 2012, he had resumed work and was asymptomatic.