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Connolly, G. Michael, Forbes, Alastair 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7416-9843, Gleeson, Joseph A. and Gazzard, Brian G.
(1990)
The value of barium enema and colonoscopy in patients infected with HIV.
AIDS, 4 (7).
pp. 687-689.
ISSN 0269-9370
Abstract
Double contrast barium enema (DCBE) and colonoscopy were prospectively compared with rigid sigmoidoscopy, rectal biopsy and microbiological examination in the analysis of stool specimens in 58 HIV-1-infected patients with diarrhoea (more than three liquid motions/day for greater than 1 month). In 26 patients no cause for the diarrhoea was found. In 17 patients the cause of diarrhoea was microbiological, and in 19 rectal histology provided a specific diagnosis. In all these patients sigmoidoscopic appearances were abnormal except in those with Cryptosporidium alone. Colonoscopy provided additional information in only one individual, with cytomegalovirus ulcers of the transverse colon. DCBE was abnormal in only seven cases (cytomegalovirus in three, Kaposi's sarcoma in two, Giardia lamblia in two) and in no case provided additional information. A combination of stool microbiology and rectal histology gave a sensitivity of 97% with a positive predictive value of 100%. The sensitivities of DCBE and colonoscopy with histology were low (16 and 62%, respectively) although the specificity for each test was high, with high positive predictive values. We conclude that neither barium enema nor colonoscopy add usefully to rigid sigmoidoscopic biopsy and stool microscopy in HIV-positive patients with diarrhoea.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | barium sulfate,colonoscopy,diagnostic errors,diarrhea,enema,evaluation studies as topic,feces,female,hiv infections,humans,male,opportunistic infections,rectum,sarcoma, kaposi,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2014 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2022 23:57 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/49522 |
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