AIDS
Last updated: Tuesday, 26, October, 2010
| AIDS defining illness | Appropriate Tests |
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Case definition: proven HIV infection and an AIDS defining illness, in the absence of another cause of immunosuppression. The CDC also includes proven HIV infection with a CD4 count of <0.2 x 109/L in their case definition. See also HIV Infection | |
Presumptive or definitive diagnosis of: | |
Oesophageal Candidiasis | See also Candidiasis |
CMV retinitis with loss of vision | |
Kaposi’s sarcoma | |
Disseminated Mycobacterial infection | |
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia | |
Cerebral Toxoplasmosis | |
Recurrent Pneumonia | Defined as >1 episode of bacterial or unspecified pneumonia within a year. |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | |
Invasive cervical carcinoma | See Cervical lesion. |
Definitive diagnosis of: | |
Candidiasis of the trachea, bronchi or lungs | |
Extrapulmonary cryptococcosis | |
Disseminated coccidioidomycosis | |
Disseminated Histoplasmosis | |
Cryptosporidiosis or isosporiasis, with diarrhoea persisting >1 month | |
Affecting any organ other than liver, spleen or lymph nodes. | |
Causing a mucocutaneous ulcer that persists for >1 month or bronchitis, pneumonitis or oesophagitis. | |
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy | See under Encephalitis. |
HIV encephalopathy | |
HIV wasting syndrome | |
Salmonella septicaemia | |
Primary cerebral lymphoma (non-Hodgkin’s) | See Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's) and Lymphoma |
Other non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of B cell or unknown immunological phenotype | Includes the following histologic types: (i) small, non-cleaved cell lymphoma or (ii) high grade lymphoma especially diffuse large cell lymphoma and immunoblastic lymphoma. See Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's) and Lymphoma |