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Document 0695
DOCN M94A0695
TI An Australian man who died of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
complicating the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in 1981.
DT 9412
AU Gerrard JG; McGahan SL; Milliken JS; Mathys JM; Royal Prince Alfred
Hospital, Camperdown NSW.
SO Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1993 Oct 28-30;5:34 (abstract no. SC1).
Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ASHM5/94348960
AB OBJECTIVE: To present the earliest Australian case of the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) reported to date. CLINICAL FEATURES: A
72 year-old man developed a prolonged illness beginning in February 1981
characterised by anorexia, malaise, weight loss and an episode of
dermatomal zoster. In July he became increasingly dyspnoeic with a
productive cough. He was admitted to hospital in August where
Pneumocystis pneumonia was diagnosed from a transbronchial lung biopsy.
Splenomegaly and generalised lymphadenopathy were noted but a scalene
lymph node biopsy examined at that time failed to establish an
underlying diagnosis. The patient was single and lived alone in an inner
suburb of Sydney. He had never left Australia and had never received a
blood transfusion. His sexual history is not recorded, nor is any
history of intravenous drug use. OUTCOME: The patient died on September
5, 1981. Recent re-examination of the preserved lymph node specimen has
detected human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proviral DNA using an in
situ hybridisation method. Similar re-examination of preserved prostatic
tissue from a resection performed in January 1980 on the same patient
has also proven positive. CONCLUSION: AIDS existed in Australia as early
as July 1981, around the time of the publication of the first American
case reports. Prior to this report the earliest AIDS diagnosis made in
Australia had been in a visiting American man in December 1982, and the
earliest indigenously acquired case had been diagnosed in December 1983.
Whether this represents an isolated case in a man who progressed rapidly
because of his relatively advanced age, or whether HIV was present
earlier in Australia than previously thought remains unanswered.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*HISTORY Adult Australia
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*HISTORY Case Report History of
Medicine, 20th Cent. Human Male Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
carinii/*HISTORY HISTORICAL ARTICLE MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).