The Approach to the Patient With HIV With Specific Symptom Complexes/Common Presentations
Summary
- PCP may occur as the initial manifestation of HIV infection in patients with undiagnosed infection
- Typically presents with subacute symptoms, low-grade fever, prominent shortness of breath and dyspnea on exertion, a dry cough, and diffuse infiltrates on chest imaging
- Bacterial pneumonia also occurs with increased frequency in patients with HIV[Wallace 1993; Kohli 2006]
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