AIDS Wasting Syndrome

Definition

The involuntary weight loss of 10% of baseline body weight plus either chronic diarrhea (two loose stools per day for more than 30 days) or chronic weakness and documented fever (for 30 days or more, intermittent or constant) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that would explain the findings.

 

 

Other Medical Definitions

• Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
• Male Chromosome Complement
• Stein-Leventhal Syndrome
• Neural Tube Defect
• Buschke Scleredema
• S1-S5 (Sacral Vertebrae)
• Radionuclide Stress Test
• Marx, Gertie F.
• Vaccination, Varicella
• HDL Cholesterol