Gastrointestinal diseases associated with HIV infection

摘要: A clinical studies were carried out on gastrointestinal diseases associated with HIV infection. During the 6 years between January 1993 and December 1998, 71 infected cases visited to Yokohama Municipal Citizen's hospital, 26 of them developed complications during course their illness. They consisted 24 males 2 females, mean age 44.7 medial value 42.5 years. Of patients, 21 Japanese, remaining 5 Southeast Asian. The CD4 count was 143/microliter 32/microliter at time development complications. Gastrointestinal esophageal candidiasis in cytomegalovirus (CMV) gastritis gastric Kaposi's sarcoma 1 patient each, amebiasis 8 infectious colitis 11 asymptomatic pathogen carriers 3 patients. Esophageal common patients low CD4, endoscopy useful for diagnosis. Amebiasis even normal experience homosexual contact. It seems that contact acquire not only infection but also Entamoeba histolytica through sexual Protozoan acid-fast bacteria detected high rate carriers. Besides food-born infections, imported infections seen foreign Japanese who had traveled abroad. most part opportunistic or tumors imported, food-born, sexually transmitted observed. necessary take into consideration varying background treatment infections.