Bowel obstruction in an infant with AIDS

Bowel obstruction in an infant with AIDS

Loveland J; Bowley DM; Beavon IR; Pitcher GJ

Archives Of Disease In Childhood

2003

Female; Humans; Fatal Outcome; infant; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/complications/pathology; AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/complications; Candidiasis/complications; Colonic Diseases/pathology/virology; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Ileal Diseases/pathology/virology; Intestinal Obstruction/pathology/virology; Pancytopenia/etiology

AIDS accounted for approximately one quarter of all deaths in South Africa in 2000 and has become the country’s single biggest cause of death.1 Paediatric HIV infection is now a common cause of admission to hospital and a major contributor to childhood mortality.2 A recent study reported that 60% of admissions to an academic hospital in Durban (Kwa-Zulu Natal) were infected with HIV.3 We report a case of intestinal obstruction in an infant with HIV infection, the cause of which was only diagnosed at postmortem examination.

CASE REPORT
A 2 month old female presented with a three day history of constipation, anorexia, and progressive abdominal distension. [...]

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