Table 1.
Diagnosis and HIV status of the patients (*elevated CRP).
| Patient | Diagnosis | HIV |
|---|---|---|
| 1* | Pneumonia and sepsis, Escherichia coli and urinary tract infection and acute renal failure | pos |
| 2* | Heart failure and megaloblastic anaemia and pernicious | neg |
| 3* | Anaemia and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura and acute haemolytic anaemia versus disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, post mortem | pos |
| 4* | Carcinoid cancer and pneumonia and metastasis to the brain | neg |
| 5* | Idiopathic vasculitis and pancytopenia questioning antiphospholipid syndrome and uterine mass | neg |
| 6 | Malaria and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura | neg |
| 7* | Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease and hypersplenism and TB | neg |
| 8* | Lung cancer and acute renal failure and pneumonia | neg |
| 9* | Pneumonia, Escherichia coli | pos |
| 10 | Idiopathic thrombocytic purpura and iron deficient anaemia and questioning systemic lupus erythematosus | neg |
| 11* | Retroviral disease and renal failure | pos |
| 12 | Metastatic breast cancer | neg |
| 13* | Pneumonia and confusion | pos |
| 14* | Pulmonary TB and effusion | pos |
| 15 | Megaloblastic anaemia | neg |
| 16 | Anaemia due to blood loss | neg |
| 17 | Retroviral disease and anaemia and Kaposi's sarcoma and previous pulmonary TB | pos |
| 18* | Antiphospholipid syndrome and haemolytic anaemia | neg |
| 19* | Retroviral disease and bicytopenia and mycobacterium avium complex | pos |
| 20* | Retroviral disease and anaemia and dilated cardiomyopathy and antiphospholipid syndrome and TB and thrombosis | pos |
| 21* | Retroviral disease and TB and sepsis and anaemia and ascitis | pos |
| 22* | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and liver and kidney failure and pelagra and sepsis and ethanol abuse | neg |
| 23* | Retroviral disease and pneumonia and pancytopenia | pos |
| 24 | Idiopathic thrombocytic purpura | neg |
| 25 | Retroviral disease and diabetes mellitus and heart failure and obesity and splenomegaly and lymphadenopathy and TB, bone marrow | pos |
| 26* | Ethanol abuse and radial fracture and pulmonary TB and bradycardia and primary hypertension, increase calcium | neg |
| 27 | Massive splenomegaly and pancytopenia | neg |
| 28* | Megaloblastic anaemia and syphilis | neg |
| 29* | Delerium and TB and calcified nodes, post mortem = miliary TB | neg |
| 30* | OD and thrombocytopenia and macrocytosis and ethanol abuse | neg |
| 31* | Retroviral disease and pulmonary TB and pancytopenia | pos |
| 32 | Nephritis: hypertension, edema, proteinuria | neg |
| 33* | Pancytopenia and ascitis and TB and proteinuria and urinary tract infection and sepsis, ICU | neg |
| 34* | Retroviral disease and Hodgkin's disease and TB | pos |
| 35 | Hypertension and diabetes mellitus and leucocytosis, persistent | neg |
| 36* | Retroviral disease on HAART and pulmonary TB | pos |
| 37 | Retroviral disease and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura-immune, normal spleen | pos |
| 38 | Megaloblastic anaemia and hypothyroidism | neg |
| 39 | Anaemia | neg |
| 40* | Anaemia and pyrexia and miliary TB, bone marrow culture | pos |
| 41 | Pancytopenia and idiopathic thrombocytic purpura | pos |
| 42 | Iron-deficient anaemia | neg |
| 43 | Iron-deficient anaemia and peptic ulcer disease and pneumonia, Staphylococcus aureus | neg |
| 44* | Idiopathic 4-limb African gangrene | neg |
| 45 | Retroviral disease and pneumonia and pancytopenia | pos |
| 46* | Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and uterine mass | neg |
| 47* | Retroviral disease and pancytopenia and pneumonia | pos |
| 48 | Idiopathic thrombocytic purpura and bicytopenia | neg |