An autopsy case of AIDS with adrenal cytomegalovirus infection and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Abstract

A 41-year-old Japanese man was admitted with dyspnea, fever and general fatigue on January 23 rd 1990. He was found to suffer from pneumonia and thought to have a lover of the man who cared gently for him at his bed side. He was diagnosed as AIDS on the basis of a homosexual history, marked lymphopenia, markedly decreased T 4/T 8 ratio and positive HIV antibody. But he died from pnemocystis carinii (PC) pneumonia shortly after the diagnosis.
The autopsy findings disclosed cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in the adrenal gland and PC pneumonia.