Infectious Disease Compendium

Kaposi Sarcoma

Diagnosis

Red bumps, primarily in HIV patients. Biopsy since Bartonella, M. avium-intracellulari and Cryptococcus neoformans can cause red bumps in HIV. They can occur anywhere especially the gi grant and the lung.

Epidemiologic Risks

Spread by sex; occurs in HIV with CD4 <100. Also seen in other kinds of immunosuppression like organ transplantation.

Spread by saliva.

Microbiology

Human herpes virus 8.

Empiric Therapy

See an oncologist. Getting the viral load down and the CD4 up with HAART is the most important treatment and preventative.