AIDS

GENERAL
Acquired breakdown of the immune system followed by secondary life-threatening opportunistic infections and neoplasms that takes advantage of the body's collapsed defenses. Acquired by shared drug needles or sexual intercourse.

OCULAR SIDE EFFECTS & SYMPTOMS:

CONJUN... Kaposi's sarcoma, viral conjunctivitis, conjunctivitis sicca
CORNEA... fungal keratitis, fungal corneal ulcer
LACRIMAL... lacrimal infection
A.C... hypopyon
TENSIONS... acute glaucoma
UVEAL... anterior uveitis, posterior uveitis
RETINA... (similar to signs in diabetic retinopathy), cotton-wool spots, periphlebitis, retinal hemorrhages, 70% of patients have fluffy white retinal opacities, necrotizing retinitis CMV retinitis
ORBIT... orbital pseudotumor

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