A prospective description of HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease in Malawi

Tamiwe Tomoka,Matthew S. Painschab,Nathan D. Montgomery,Ryan Seguin,Maurice Mulenga,Bongani Kaimila,Edwards Kasonkanji,Takondwa Zuze,Richard Nyasosela,Ruth Nyirenda,Maria Chikasema,Blessings Tewete,Asekanadziwa Mtangwanika,Sarah Chiyoyola,Fred Chimzimu,Coxcilly Kampani,Yuri Fedoriw,Satish Gopal

A prospective description of HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease in Malawi

2019

Tamiwe Tomoka
Matthew S. Painschab
Nathan D. Montgomery
Ryan Seguin
Maurice Mulenga
Bongani Kaimila
Edwards Kasonkanji
Takondwa Zuze
Richard Nyasosela
Ruth Nyirenda
Maria Chikasema
Blessings Tewete
Asekanadziwa Mtangwanika
Sarah Chiyoyola
Fred Chimzimu
Coxcilly Kampani
Yuri Fedoriw
Satish Gopal

Despite high burden of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) and HIV, multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) is rarely reported in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A pathology series in Uganda demonstrated latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) and viral interleukin-6 positivity by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in 3 of 64

Keywords:

Dermatology
Diabetes mellitus
Immunology
Antigen
Sarcoma
Multicentric Castleman Disease
Immunohistochemistry
Medicine
human immunodeficiency virus

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