Chest ultrasonography in patients with HIV: a case series and review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pulmonary disease is common in HIV-infected patients. Diagnostic means, however, are often scarce in areas where most HIV patients are living. Chest ultrasonography has recently evolved as a highly sensitive and specific imaging tool for diagnosing chest conditions such as pneumothorax, pneumonia and pulmonary edema in critically ill patients. This article addresses the issue of imaging and differentiating common pulmonary conditions in HIV-infected patients by chest ultrasonography.

Methods

We report chest ultrasound features of five different common pulmonary diseases in HIV-infected patients (bacterial pneumonia, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus pneumonia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma) and review the respective literature.

Conclus

SUBMITTER: Heuvelings CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4735240 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature