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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2014

New onset of kaposi sarcoma in a human immunodeficiency virus-1-infected homosexual man, despite early antiretroviral treatment, sustained viral suppression, and immune restoration.

Amrei von Braun, Dominique L Braun, Jivko Kamarachev, Huldrych F Günthard

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. An expanded population of CD8Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  7. Severe Kaposi Sarcoma in an Urban Public Hospital.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Amrei von BraunDivisions of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology.
Dominique L BraunDivisions of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology.
Jivko KamarachevDermatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Huldrych F GünthardDivisions of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is a rare case of new onset Kaposi sarcoma in a man infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and receiving antiretroviral treatment since primary HIV infection, with normal CD4(+) cell count and suppressed viral load. The presentation questions the general understanding of Kaposi sarcoma as an acquired immune deficiency syndrome-defining disease occurring predominantly in severely immunocompromised patients infected with HIV.

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HHV-8 reactivationimmune restorationKaposi sarcomaprimary HIV infection

Identifiers

PMID25734079
PMCPMC4324193

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