A client comes to the emergency department reporting symptoms of the flu. When the health history reveals intravenous drug use a
nd multiple sexual partners, acute retroviral syndrome is suspected, and a test for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is performed. Which clinical responses are associated most commonly with this syndrome? Select all that apply.1. Malaise2. Confusion3. Constipation4. Swollen lymph glands5. Oropharyngeal candidiasis
Clinical responses most associated with this syndrome are:
1. Malaise
2. Swollen lymph glands
Explanation:
When antibodies specific to HIV develops, it come with acute retroviral syndrome, which seems more like flu. Some of these syndrome may include sore throat, malaise, fever, headache, muscle pain, swollen lymp glands, and others. These syndromes are recurrent for several months and one begins to see them manifest one to three week after getting the infection. Other syndromes like confusion and Oropharyngeal candidiasis begins to manifest in the late-chronic stages and intermediate-chronic stages respectively. Constipation is not associated with any stage of this disease.
Cholesterol (especially LDL*) tend to get into macrophages which migrate into blood vessels. Macrophages with cholesterol cannot get out of the vessels and stay there which causes a lipid mass in arteries. That causes atherosclerosis.
