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Immune System Diseases > Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
... > Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Retroviridae Infections > Lentivirus Infections > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease Attributes > Communicable Diseases > Blood-Borne Infections > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
Infections > Communicable Diseases > Blood-Borne Infections > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
Infections > Virus Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease Attributes > Communicable Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
... > Infections > Communicable Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
... > Urogenital Diseases > Genital Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral > HIV Infections > AIDS-Related Complex
Infections > Virus Diseases > Slow Virus Diseases > AIDS-Related Complex

Preferred term

AIDS-Related Complex  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • ARC
  • Lymphadenopathy Syndrome
  • Lymphadenopathy Syndromes
  • Syndrome, Lymphadenopathy
  • Syndromes, Lymphadenopathy

Note

  • coordinate with HIV-1 or HIV-2 if pertinent

Scope note

  • A prodromal phase of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Laboratory criteria separating AIDS-related complex (ARC) from AIDS include elevated or hyperactive B-cell humoral immune responses, compared to depressed or normal antibody reactivity in AIDS; follicular or mixed hyperplasia in ARC lymph nodes, leading to lymphocyte degeneration and depletion more typical of AIDS; evolving succession of histopathological lesions such as localization of Kaposi's sarcoma, signaling the transition to the full-blown AIDS.

History note

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000386

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