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Oesophagus
 
Symptoms 
Painful dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing)
 
Causes
  • Candida
  • CMV.
  • Primary lymphoma,
  • Kaposi's sarcoma,
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • drug-induced ulceration.
     
Gastric disease
  
Symptoms
Nausea, Vomiting.
 
Causes
  • CMV-induced ulceration,
  • Lymphoma
  • Gastric ulcer
  • Mallory-Weiss tears
  • variceal bleeding
  • Hepatitis B and C
     
Small bowel disease
 
Symptoms
High volume of diarrhoea, Colicky Para-umbilical pain
 
Usual Causative organisms
  • Cryptosporidium
  • Salmonella species
  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Giardia lamblia
  • Campylobacter
  • CMV
  • Microsporidium
  • Clostridium difficile
  • Strongyloides stercoralis
  • MAI
  • Kaposi's sarcoma.
     
Colorectal disease
 
Symptoms
Frequent small volumes of stools, Tenesmus and painful defecation
 
Signs
Left lower quadrant and suprapubic colicky pain, .
 
Causative organisms
CMV, Cryptosporidium.
 
Hepatobiliary disease
 
Symptoms
Right upper quadrant pain
 
Sign
hepatomegaly.
 
Common causes
hepatitis A, B, C; hepatotoxic drugs; CMV; MAI infections.
 
Investigations
LFT, syphillis serology, CT/ USG of upper abdomen liver biopsy.

 

 

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