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Disease Information for AIDS Wasting Syndrome
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Lipoatrophy face
- Loss fatty deposits/facial area
- Anorexia in Infant
- Failure to Thrive
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- Failure to thrive/infant sign
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In an AIDS/HIV patient often the presentation after several years latency from infection;Involuntary weight loss of greater than 10 percent associated with intermittent or constant fever and chronic diarrhea or fatigue for more than 30 days in the absence of a defined cause other than HIV infection;A constant feature is major muscle wasting with scattered myofiber degeneration;know as "Slim disease" in Africa
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