1. Clinical course of disseminated Kaposi sarcoma in a HIV and hepatitis B co-infected heterosexual male
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Raju Titus Chacko, Thambu David Sudarsanam, Meera Thomas, Manoj Kumar Agarwala, Sheila Nair, and Renu George
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Chemotherapy ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,viruses ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,Clinical course ,virus diseases ,Kaposi sarcoma ,Case Report ,Hepatitis B ,lcsh:RL1-803 ,medicine.disease ,medicine.disease_cause ,Virology ,Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ,HIV-hepatitis B virus co-infection ,Doxorubicin ,medicine ,lcsh:Dermatology ,Sarcoma ,business ,Human herpesvirus ,medicine.drug - Abstract
AIDS associated Kaposi sarcoma (AIDS-KS) was first reported from India in 1993. Since then only 16 cases have been reported. Three of them had proven Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection. We report a case of disseminated KS in a heterosexual male from India with HIV, hepatitis B and HHV-8 infection. He was given six cycles of chemotherapy with liposomal doxorubicin over three months to which he showed a good response. The case highlights the clinical course and management of a HHV-8 positive disseminated KS in a patient co-infected with Hepatitis B and HIV.
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- 2015