Term
| For children, an AIDS diagnosis often follows the progression of |
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Definition
| failure to thrive, an encephalopathy, or an opportunistic infection |
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Term
| The most common AIDS-defining condition for children is |
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Definition
| Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) |
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Term
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Definition
| a term used when the immune system has become compromised enough to allow one of the many diagnoses or conditions known to be associated with advanced HIV disease to occur. |
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Term
Aids
diagnoses or conditions are caused by |
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Definition
| either the director indirect effects of the virus on the immune system, or because of HIV's affinity for other cells of the body with CD4 receptors, including the lining of the intestines causing diarrhea, or neurological cells leading to cerebral atrophy. |
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Term
Adolescents' AIDS-defining
illnesses |
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Definition
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Term
infants _________ are much higher
WHICH CAN EXCELLERATE
THE PROGRESSTION OG HIV |
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Definition
CD4+ T lymphocyte counts and percentage values
Adult values are reached by the age of 6 |
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Term
| high-risk factors for HIV |
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Definition
| suspected maternal diagnosis, high-risk environmental conditions, failure to thrive presentation, or a history of recurrent bacterial infections, |
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Term
| Children acquire HIV infection through perinatal transmission BY |
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Definition
| Contact with the mothers vaginal secretions during delivery |
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Term
| infections common in HIV-infected infants even before they are diagnosed with HIV. |
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Definition
| Chronic otitis media, thrush, and Pneumocystis carinii (PCP) |
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Term
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Definition
| range from being completely asymptomatic with normal CD4+ counts to having associated symptoms of the presenting OI or condition that meet the criteria for an AIDS diagnosis. |
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Term
AIDS diagnosis
and the age a child |
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Definition
| the younger a child is at the time of acquisition, the more severe the symptoms, the more quickly the disease progresses, and the poorer the prognosis. |
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Term
Infants who acquire HIV
life expectency |
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Definition
| will have met AIDS-defining criteria bv 1 year of age, with many dying by 4 years of age. |
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Term
| HIV antibody test used for anyone older than 15-18 months of age. |
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Definition
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Term
| Infants from birth to 18 months of age should be tested for HIV by using a |
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Definition
| a viral diagnostic assay, such as the HIV DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR), plasma HIV RNA assay, or HIV whole cell viral culture. |
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Term
| The goals of treatment HIV |
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Definition
| slow the progression of disease and improve the quality of life of infected persons. This is done primarily through a combination of three or four antiretroviral drugs |
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Term
immunizations
in children with HIV |
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Definition
| follow the usual schedule with the exceptions of using only the inactivated formulation for polio (IPV), receiving an annual influenza vaccine, considering varicella only for children in category Nl or Al with a CD4% >25%, and excluding those with severe suppression from measles vaccine |
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