[Clinical Picture] Advanced Kaposi's sarcoma in a 2-year-old child

A 2-year-old boy with HIV infection receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for 2 months presented with a 3-month history of high-grade fever, diarrhoea, and progressive generalised lymphadenopathy (figure). Laboratory results showed severe pancytopenia (haemoglobin, 3 ·3 g/dL; neutrophil count, 0·48 cells per nL; platelets, 6 cells per nL), moderately decreased CD4 cell count (900 cells per μL [normal range>1000 cells per μL]), and low HIV-1 RNA plasma viral load (346 copies per mL).

Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - February 22, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Cornelia Feiterna-Sperling, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, J örg Hofmann, Renate Krüger Tags: Clinical Picture Source Type: research