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4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses the progressive breakdown the body experiences as it succumbs to AIDS. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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safe sex, society as a whole is not immune from the disease; indeed, those who receive tainted blood in a transfusion can contract it, as well as heterosexual couples who
have received it from past partners. The pathophysiology of AIDS is slow, painful and debilitating; once end stage is reached, the individual is typically kept on constant medication to
manage the overwhelming suffering. The AIDS virus attacks an otherwise healthy individual by way of methodically breaking down the bodys various systems and impairing function that allows for opportunistic
bacteria to invade and cause secondary infections; in fact, many of the pathophysiological aspects of AIDS occur as a direct result of residual complications stemming from the virally-induced weakened immune
system (Mohammed et al, 2006). The list of conditions and illnesses that take shape as the disease progresses is both long and increasingly complex to address. The specific pathophysiology
for each of the four distinct stages includes acute HIV infection; asymptomatic HIV infection; persistent generalized lymphadenopathy; and other diseases, the last of which involves constitutional symptoms, neurological disease, secondary
infections and neoplasms, and other conditions (Mohammed et al, 2006). More specifically, the four stages of progression are associated with the following pathophysiology: I. Asymptomatic/acute HIV infection; persistent
generalized lymphadenopathy II. Weight loss = 10% of body weight; minor mucocutaneous manifestations (seborrheic dermatitis, prurigo, fungal nail infection, recurrent oral ulceration, and angular cheilitis); recurrent respiratory tract infections, such
as bacterial sinusitis III. Weight loss = 10% of body weight; chronic unexplained diarrhea = one month; oral candidiasis (thrush); oral hairy leukoplakia; pulmonary tuberculosis within the past year; severe
bacterial infection, such as pneumonia and pyomyositis IV. HIV-wasting syndrome; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; toxoplasmosis of the brain; cryptosporidiosis with diarrhea = one month; extrapulmonary cryptosporidiosis; cytomegalovirus disease other than in
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