Endocrine Abstracts

A 60 year old female from Zimbabwe with an eight year history of HIV infection presented with malaise and facial swelling. She had been established on antiretroviral treatment (Kivexa (lamivudine / abacavir) and Kaletra (lopinivir / ritonavir)) since shortly after her initial diagnosis. One month earlier she had received an injection of intramuscular triamcinolone acetate to treat an inflammatory polyarthropathy. She was also prescribed inhaled salmeterol xinafoate 50 mcg/flut...