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  • Title: [Incidence and pathogenesis of ocular symptoms in HIV infection].
    Author: Fabricius EM, Prantl F, Jäger H, Holzer E, Möller A, Greite JH.
    Journal: Fortschr Ophthalmol; 1989; 86(5):461-8. PubMed ID: 2583639.
    Abstract:
    202 patients with HIV infections of different stages [1 (n = 59): symptomless HIV seropositivity, 2 (n = 64): pre-AIDS (LAS = Lymphadenopathy syndrome, ARC = AIDS related complex), 3 (n = 79): AIDS] were prospectively examined. The findings of the first examination were analyzed statistically in a cross-section-study. In 15 AIDS autopsy cases the eyes were examined histopathologically and with immunohistochemical techniques. Patients with stage 1 had only some Sicca syndromes (3%) and neuroophthalmological signs (dyscoria with neurosyphilis) (2%). 14% of the patients with stage 2 had a microvascular retinal syndrome, 11% a Sicca syndrome and 2% neuroophthalmological signs. Among the AIDS patients (stage 3), however, 61% had a microvascular syndrome of the retina, 24% a retinitis resp. choroiditis as an opportunistic infection (in 15% Cytomegalovirus was the causative organism), 16% had neuroophthalmological symptoms, 14% a Sicca syndrome and 5% Kaposi's sarcoma of the eyelids or conjunctiva. The microvascular retinal syndrome was found to be the most sensitive ocular indicator for an advanced stage of HIV infection. Further changes of the anterior eye segments (especially conjunctival vessel abnormalities and precipitates of the corneal endothelium in Cytomegalovirus retinitis) are demonstrated.
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