MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX ASSOCIATED IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN HIV- INFECTED PATIENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Roxana Carmen Cernat ◽  
Irina Magdalena Dumitru ◽  
Carmen Ilie Serban

The incidence of Mycobacterium avium Complex (MAC) Disease in HIV-infected individuals has significantly decreased in recent years due to the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) and the initiation of Clarithromycin prophylaxis. We present the case of a patient with advanced AIDS, with generalized lymphadenopathy and digestive symptoms, diagnosed with disseminated MAC, a diagnosis which was based on the results obtained from axillary lymph node and intestinal biopsies. Considering the time of the MAC diagnosis in relation to the recent introduction of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, we considered immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) with good evolution under azithromycin, ethambutol and moxifloxacin treatment.

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Corti ◽  
María F. Villafañe ◽  
Marta Ambroggi ◽  
Mirna Sawicki ◽  
Elisa Gancedo

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is an atypical and unexpected reaction related to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients. IRIS includes an atypical response to an opportunistic pathogen (generally Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, cytomegalovirus and herpes varicella-zoster), in patients responding to HAART with a reduction of plasma viral load and evidence of immune restoration based on increase of CD4+ T-cell count. We reported a case of a patient with AIDS which, after a first failure of HAART, developed a subcutaneous abscess and supraclavicular lymphadenitis as an expression of IRIS due to Mycobacterium avium complex after starting a second scheme of HAART.


2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 349-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
R A Ferrand ◽  
A Elgalib ◽  
W Newsholme ◽  
A Childerhouse ◽  
S G Edwards ◽  
...  

An HIV positive man being treated for disseminated tuberculosis developed hypercalcaemia 17 days after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Hypercalcaemia resolved with stopping HAART and was thought to be due to immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.


2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter de Araujo Eyer-Silva ◽  
Maria Cecília da Fonseca Salgado ◽  
Jorge Francisco da Cunha Pinto ◽  
Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry ◽  
Rogério Neves-Motta ◽  
...  

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in HIV-infected subjects initiating antiretroviral therapy most commonly involves new or worsening manifestations of previously subclinical or overt infectious diseases. Reports of non-infectious IRIS are much less common but represent important diagnostic and treatment challenges. We report on a 34-year-old HIV-infected male patient with no history of gout who developed acute gouty arthritis in a single joint one month after initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy.


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