Background: European Clearinghouse compiled the information on oral problems related to HIV infection, and categorized the oral manifestations in HIV as strongly associated, less commonly associated and lesions commonly seen in HIV. One of the manifestations stated in less commonly associated lesions is "Thrombocytopenia"
Query: How would one can diagnose Thrombocytopenia clinically based on oral symptoms. Although it can be discussed that thrombocytopenia related oral changes are Petechiae, purpura, ecchymosis, hemorrhagic bullae, hematomas, is it evidently supportive to diagnose the presentation as thrombocytopenia?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8229864
Dear Arvind,
I do not know whether you consider fungi in oral problems.
We did some work to isolate opportunistic fungi from oral lesions from immunocompromised patients.You can easily isolate Candida albicans,C.tropicalis,C.parapsilosis,C.krusei,Geotrichum candidum,Rhototorula from oral scrapings on Pal sunflower seed medium and study the morphology in Narayan stain or PHOL stain.
I am of the opinion that the growing role of fungi in oral health should be well studied.
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