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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 6/2017

01-06-2017 | Clinical Practice: Clinical Images

Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Presenting as Mycobacterium Avium Complex Lymphadenitis

Authors: Ashley Matusz-Fisher, MD, Wesley Bodie, DO, Thomas Montgomery, MD, FACP

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 6/2017

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A 46-year-old woman presented with dysphagia secondary to an esophageal stricture. She was incidentally found to have enlarged left supraclavicular lymph nodes. Six months earlier, she had been diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) during hospitalization for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. Her CD4 count was 1 cell/mm3; viral load was 171,579 copies/ml. She was started on antiretroviral therapy and prophylactic doses of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and azithromycin. …
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Metadata
Title
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Presenting as Mycobacterium Avium Complex Lymphadenitis
Authors
Ashley Matusz-Fisher, MD
Wesley Bodie, DO
Thomas Montgomery, MD, FACP
Publication date
01-06-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 6/2017
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-016-3956-z

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