Year 2023 / Volume 115 / Number 4
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Gastrointestinal infection by Mycobacterium avium with an unusual endoscopic presentation

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8845/2022

Gina Patricia de Lima Piña, Juan Carrascosa Gil, Luis Alfonso Díaz Galvis, Cristina Fuertes Jiménez,

Abstract
A 38-year-old male with medical history of HIV group C3 with voluntary abandonment of antiretroviral therapy, was hospitalized due to general deterioration, abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding without signs of acute abdomen. The patient presented anemia, renal and hepatic dysfunction, and metabolic acidosis. Abdominal CT and CT angiography were performed without observing signs of perforation or active bleeding. In the same year, he was also diagnosed of intestinal Cryptosporidiosis, cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma and disseminated infection by Mycobacterium avium (MA) with lung, liver and bone marrow involvement. Panendoscopy was performed, showing violaceous lesions on the soft palate. In the stomach and duodenum, he presented multiple, large, well-defined and occasionally confluent red-violet lesions Colonoscopy did not show macroscopic alterations.
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Received: 07/04/2022

Accepted: 12/04/2022

Online First: 26/04/2022

Published: 03/04/2023

Article Online First time: 19 days

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