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Janet Gilmour1, Duane Bates2, Genevieve Olsen3
1Southern Alberta HIV/AIDS Clinic, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; gilmourj@ucalgary.ca.
Abstract:
A 47-year-old African American man was seen for routine follow-up for his human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The patient's medical history included insomnia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, pulmonary embolism, right shoulder musculoskeletal pain, latent tuberculosis infection, sickle cell trait (hemoglobin S variant), and HIV of 24 years' duration.
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