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In HIV-positive patients, respiratory infection symptoms can usually be treated or at least suppressed, but the clinical response may be obscured.

Of the many disorders that imitate vasculitis, one is particularly challenging to the diagnostician and produces significant patient morbidity and mortality.

Many of the N gonorrhoeae strains seen today are impervious to the relatively inexpensive drugs advocated for primary treatment in earlier years.

HIV infection in women; bone marrow aspiration and biopsy in HIV infection; septic arthritis and HIV infection; current demographics of AIDS in the United States; common CNS infections in AIDS.

This condition should be suspected in patients with new azotemia who do not exhibit prerenal factors, features typical of acute tubular necrosis or a glomerular process, or evidence of obstructive uropathy.

Patients evaluated their quality of life on a questionnaire designed to more accurately reflect treatment outcome and to act as a tool for quality assurance assessment.

A high percentage of HIV-infected patients, both asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic, are consenting to zidovudine therapy, despite the risk for serious adverse effects associated with this agent.

Stereotactic biopsy is useful in identifying non-neoplastic intracranial lesions when the diagnosis was unclear by conventional means. An accompanying commentary puts the results in perspective.

A critical analysis of current experimental agents and obstacles to the development of effective drug therapy.

Spirometry permits diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and can be used to reinforce medical advice to modify harmful behavior, such as cigarette smoking.

This agent appears to be well tolerated, with a low incidence of both short-term and long-term side effects. However, more clinical experience is needed to better define its antiarrhythmic role.