[Pediatric AIDS: a report of the first fatal Cuban pediatric case].
The case of a Cuban child with AIDS acquired by perinatal transmission is reported. Thirteen days after birth, the child had chronic diarrhoeas affecting its pondostatural development. It was hospitalized many times due to recurrent respiratory processes, in one of which Pneumocystis carinii was detected. Oral candidiasis, cryptosporidiosis and intestinal amebiasis in faeces were also diagnosed. It died with generalized tonic-clonic convulsions and bradypnea. At autopsy, the direct death cause was endocranial hypertension due to unspecific sub-acute viral meningitis.
González Núñez
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Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí.
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Rodríguez Barreras
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Díaz Jidy
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Fraga Castro
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000473:pathology; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000473:pathology; D003462:Cuba; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000473:pathology
SIDA pediátrico: descripción del primer caso infantil cubano fallecido.