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Chest Radiography

▪ To detect Pneumocystis jiroveci infection or tuberculosis

ALT, Alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; Ig,
immunoglobulin; WBC, white blood cell.

Data from Copstead-Kirkhorn L, Banasik J: Pathophysiology, ed 5, St. Louis, 2014,
Mosby.

Box 62-5

Diagnostic Criteria for Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

+
▪ CD4 T cell count drops below 200 cells/L
▪ Presence of a fungal, viral, protozoal, or bacterial infection
▪ Candidiasis of bronchi, trachea, lungs, or esophagus
▪ Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
▪ Disseminated or extrapulmonary coccidiomycosis
▪ Disseminated or extrapulmonary histoplasmosis
▪ Cytomegalovirus
▪ Herpes simplex
▪ Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
▪ Toxoplasmosis
▪ Mycobacterium tuberculosis
▪ Recurrent pneumonia
▪ Recurrent salmonella septicemia
▪ Presence of an opportunistic cancer
▪ Invasive cervical cancer
▪ Kaposi’s sarcoma
▪ Burkitt’s lymphoma
▪ Immunoblastic lymphoma
▪ Primary lymphoma of the brain
▪ Wasting syndrome (10% or more of ideal body mass)
▪ AIDS dementia complex

Adapted from Lewis S, Dirksen S, Heitkemper M, Bucher L: Medical-surgical nursing:
assessment and management of clinical problems, ed 9, St. Louis, 2014, Mosby.

Practice Questions

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