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. 2017 Feb;79(1):29-32.
doi: 10.1007/s12262-015-1417-2. Epub 2016 Jan 25.

Clinical Profile of Surgical Diseases with Emergence of New Problems in HIV+ Individuals

Tejaswini Vallabha  1 , Mandar Dhamangaonkar  1 , Vikram Sindgikar  1 , Ravindra Nidoni  1 , Harshavardhan Biradar  1 , Aniketan Kv  1 , Ramakant Baloorkar  1
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Clinical Profile of Surgical Diseases with Emergence of New Problems in HIV+ Individuals

Tejaswini Vallabha et al. Indian J Surg. 2017 Feb.

Abstract

North Karnataka is one of the regions with the high prevalence of HIV+ individuals. Bijapur is a district in North Karnataka with high prevalence as per fact sheets of NACO of March 2012. Better awareness, access to health care, and antiretroviral therapy have improved survival and increase in number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). Improved survival has increased their attendance to hospitals with variety of surgical problems, some known and some less known. The percentage of HIV+ individuals was 1.64 % among all admissions. Of these individuals, 13.65 % (272) had surgical problems. Abscesses were the commonest. Abscesses at uncommon sites also were encountered. Anorectal pathologies, tuberculosis, lymphadenopathy, appendicitis, etc. commonly seen in HIV+ individuals were seen. Drug-induced pancreatitis due to anti retroviral therapy was one of the common problems encountered. Uncommon conditions like ureteric calculi, external iliac artery thrombosis, diaphragmatic eventration, and few more were observed. Even though literature on AIDS/HIV is abundant, there is less information on surgical conditions encountered more so from this part of the subcontinent. Hence, it was decided to report the profile of the conditions encountered.

Keywords: AIDS; Clinical profile; HIV; Surgical diseases.

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