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AIDS (final stages)

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In the final stages of AIDS the infections are relatively unimportant - the patient is suffering mostly from HIV disease.

Features may include:

  • weakness
  • cachexia
  • diarrhoea
  • dementia

In contrast to the similar features seen in the terminal stages of cancer, the patient may have relatively long to live - quite a few months. In terminal cancer, once the patient has reached this stage the prognosis is a matter of weeks.


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