title: [AIDS and the lungs].
abstract: About half of patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) have an associated pulmonary disease which is more often due to infections than to tumors. Rapid diagnosis is important, especially in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, since the prognosis depends on early treatment. A patient in good condition may be managed on an ambulatory basis. The manifestations of tuberculosis are often atypical, i.e. noncavitating with a diffuse infiltrate, hilar adenopathy and extrapulmonary foci. Treatment of atypical mycobacteria is not clearly effective and empirical treatment has little point since the resistance pattern is unpredictable.
authors.affiliation: Departement für Innere Medizin, Universität Basel, Kantonsspital Basel.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zimmerli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elsasser
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Perruchoud
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000175:diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: AIDS und Lunge.