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Somsak Lertsumitkul, MB, BS, MPH; Scott M. Whitcup, MD; Chi-Chao Chan, MD
Bethesda, Md

Arch Ophthalmol. 1997;115(5):676-677.

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Recent studies indicate that patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection are predisposed to vasculopathy and thrombotic events.¹ Yet, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is rare in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We describe an unusual ocular finding in a child with AIDS in whom DIC developed secondary to septicemia.

Report of a Case.

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with increasing lymphadenopathy, opportunistic infections, and decreasing CD4⁺ cell levels (from 1.142x10⁹/L [1142/µL] in August 1993 to 0.140x10⁹/L in February 1996) developed in a 5-year-old African American girl with vertically acquired human immunodeficiency virus infection. On March 2, 1996, severe pancreatitis, complicated by congestive cardiac failure, renal failure, and consumptive thrombocytopenia (platelet count, 110x10⁹/L-10x10⁹/L developed in the girl. This development and elevated prothrombin and partial thromboplastin times (22.0 and 87.7 seconds, respectively) were consistent with a diagnosis of DIC. A blood culture . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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