What finally killed this AIDS patient?

Authors :: Smith, Leon G.
Source :: Patient Care. Nov 30, 1992, Vol. 26 Issue 19, p109, 1 p.
Publication Year :: 1992
Abstract: AIDS patients usually suffer a host of diseases throughout their illness. The death of a 21-year-old AIDS patients is attributed to extrapulmonary pneumocystosis. The condition is caused by the organism that causes pneumocystis pneumonia.<br />CASE A 21-year-old white homosexual man with AIDS was hospitalized after a fever of one week. He had been HIV-seropositive since 1987 and had bouts of rectal herpes, candidal esophagitis, [...]