ArticleBMJ case reports2020
Intractable pleural effusion in Kaposi sarcoma following antiretroviral therapy in a Caucasian female infected with HIV.
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- Pleural Effusion in an HIV-Positive Patient: A Case Report and Review of Diagnostic Challenges.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
- Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: A Case Series.Journal of medical cases · 2024Article
- Unusual Localization of AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma in a Heterosexual Male during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Report.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Plasmacytic Pleural Effusion as a Major Presentation of Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma: A Case Report.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Article
- Concurrent development of HIV-negative Kaposi's sarcoma and mycosis fungoides in an elderly Inuit from Canada.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
We report the case of a 57-year-old Caucasian woman with AIDS-related disseminated Kaposi sarcoma (KS) characterised by the combination of several unusual features. The chylous nature of the pleural effusions, the documented parietal pleural involvement at thoracoscopy and the marked clinical worsening through an immune reconstitution syndrome following antiretroviral therapy initiation represent several rare situations that occurred in the same female patient. In addition, the use of indwelling pleural catheters for dyspnoea palliation also represents a rare therapeutic intervention. This case is a reminder of the possibility of AIDS-related pleural KS, now uncommon in the era of antiretroviral therapy.
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