Acute Abdomen and HIV Infection

摘要: Abdominal pain in the HIV-infected patient is a common complaint which constitutes complicated diagnostic and therapeutic problem. Even though need for surgical intervention HIV/AIDS with abdominal complaints low, general surgeon will often be called upon to evaluate patients, as result of complexity interpretation clinical findings. Once consulted, surgeon’s dilemma distinguishing conditions do not require surgery from surgically treatable pathology and, above all, true emergencies. Emergent operation by itself predisposes AIDS an increased mortality risk 1,2,3,4. On other hand, delayed diagnosis late exploration morbidity 5. Although profound immunodeficiency associated poor prognosis, asymptomatic patients recover well appear suffer healing 6,7. Yet, new antiviral therapy operative has dropped much necessary emergency riskbenefit analysis now more favour laparotomy 5,8,9.