HIV diagnosis: why and how do we miss important clues?
- 1Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK
- 2Peninsula Medical School, Royal Cornwall Hospital, UK
- 3Kent & Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK
- 4The Beacon Surgery, Crowborough, UK
- 5The patient
- Dr S J Winceslaus, Consultant GUM physician, Department of GU Medicine, Culverden Suite, Kent & Sussex Hospital, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8AT, UK; joseph.winceslaus{at}mtw-tr.nhs.uk
- Accepted 7 December 2007
Abstract
Research has found that a significant proportion of patients diagnosed late with HIV infection had been in contact with healthcare professionals in the preceding year with symptoms attributable to HIV. We report a unique case of late HIV diagnosis missed when seen by a number of specialists and discuss whether with better communication the diagnosis could have been alerted earlier.
Footnotes
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Competing interests: None.
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Patient consent: Mark is the patient and wanted to be named as the last author.
