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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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