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We report five cases of psychosis in patients with antibody to human immunodeficiency virus. All patients was man and intravenous drug abuser. The age range was 22 from 31 years with a mean of 25 years. In all cases acute schizophrenia was the first clinical picture of the HIV. Four patients had opportunistic infections and AIDS-Dementia Complex months later. If there is a genuine biological association between HIV carriage and schizophrenia illness, then HIV infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of such an illness.
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Complexo AIDS Demência/complicações , Soropositividade para HIV/complicações , Esquizofrenia/complicações , Complexo AIDS Demência/diagnóstico , Doença Aguda , Adulto , Soropositividade para HIV/diagnóstico , Humanos , Masculino , Infecções Oportunistas/complicações , Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico , Abuso de Substâncias por Via Intravenosa/complicaçõesRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To know the characteristics of lung cancer among patients with HIV-1 infection. METHOD: The clinical records of patients infected with HIV-1 and lung cancer diagnosed at our institution from January 1991 to April 1995 were reviewed. The epidemiological, clinical, histological and evolutive factors were studied. RESULTS: A total of 1,258 patients were diagnosed of HIV-1 infection during that period of time. Seven patients out of those 1,258 had also a lung cancer. Six were males. All of them were smokers and had severe immunodepression. In four cases the histological diagnosis was epidermoid carcinoma, in two adenocarcinoma, and in one case undifferentiated large cell carcinoma. Five patients were on advanced stages at diagnosis, and lung cancer was the direct cause of death. CONCLUSION: The frequency of lung cancer among our patients with HIV-1 infection was 5.5 per thousand, with predominance of epidermoid carcinoma.