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  • Title: [Renal complications in HIV-1 infection].
    Author: Méry JP.
    Journal: Rev Med Chil; 1997 Jan; 125(1):95-8. PubMed ID: 9336076.
    Abstract:
    Renal involvement in AIDS may be specific or unspecific. Unspecific lesions, the most common, are usually an acute tubular necrosis produced by hemodynamic, infectious or electrolytic alterations that lead to an acute renal failure or drug nephrotoxicity. Specific lesions are segmental and focal hyalinosis, immune complex glomerulonephritis and thrombotic microangiopathy. Focal and segmental hyalinosis is observed almost exclusively in black people and produces a rapidly progressive renal failure. Lesions are a consequence of HIV stimulation of TGF beta in mesangial cells. Immune complex glomerulonephritis, formed by HIV antigens and anti HIV antibodies, is observed in white and black people. The glomerular lesion in this condition is less severe than in the former. Thrombotic microangiopathy could be a consequence of a pathogenic effect of the virus over glomerular capillaries and arterioles. It is clinically expressed as a hemolytic uremic syndrome. This paper reports briefly the renal pathological study of 46 patients infected with HIV-1, seen at the Nephrology Service of the Bichat Hospital in Paris.
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