title: Update on lung disease in AIDS.
abstract: Pulmonary disorders remain an important complication of HIV infection, even in the current era of potent antiretroviral therapy. Using an integrated approach that combines radiographic pattern recognition with knowledge of a patient's clinical symptoms, laboratory data, immune status level, demographic information, and drug therapy can enhance the interpretation of imaging studies in HIV-infected patients. Although chest radiography remains the mainstay of imaging the HIV-positive patient with respiratory symptoms, CT plays an increasingly important secondary role in selected cases.
authors: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors: Phillip M
authors: PM
authors: Boiselle
authors: Galit
authors: G
authors: Aviram
authors: Joel E
authors: JE
authors: Fishman
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed