Pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma presenting as fulminant respiratory failure.
A 32-year-old black man, a homosexual patient with a history of lymphadenopathy, presented with diarrhea, weight loss, and a bilateral interstitial infiltrate. Within days after admission, the patient developed dyspnea with rapid progression to respiratory failure and a rapid increase of the infiltrate. An open-lung biopsy showed Kaposi's sarcoma. Treatment with chemotherapy reversed the respiratory failure.
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Division of Pulmonary Medicine, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology