Sarcoma de Kaposi - Envolvimento visceral na Sida

• Autor(a) principal: Leitão, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 1995
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2341
• topic: sarcoma de Kaposi; SK víscera infecção pelo HIV; síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida; SIDA; Kaposi's sarcoma; visceral KS; HIV infections; acquired imunodeficiency syndrome; HIV

Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) is a multifocal neoplasm affecting mainly the shin, but it can reach the visce­ral organs. Four variants are described· classic KS, African endemic, iatrogenic and epidemie. The lat­ ter occurred with the association of this tumour to AIDS and took important proportions, as for its fre­quency as for the disseminated clinical expression with stressed visceral plasm. There is a correlation between the degree of immunological deficiency and the extent of the di­sease. AlDS-related KS presents visceral involvement on 50 to 70% of the patients. However, the isolated vis­ceral involvement is rare. It is described the gas­ trointestina pulmonaly and cardiac expression of the disease, because those are the most affected or­ gans. The treatment is merely paliative and it can be local or systemic. The KS is rarely the cause of dead, except on the pulmonary involvement. The pa­tients usually die due tyo opportunistic infection .