Tuberculoid leprosy and cytomegalovirus retinitis as immune restoration disease in a patient with AIDS
- Kumar, Shishir
- Ghosh, Manab Kumar
- Sarkar, Somenath
- Mallik, Sudeshna
- Biswas, Pradyot Narayan
- Saha, Bibhuti
Publication date
February 2012
DOI Publisher
International Society for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. ISSN
1201-9712 Citation count (estimate)
1Abstract
SummaryHere we report a unique case of tuberculoid leprosy and cytomegalovirus retinitis in a 27-year-old female patient with AIDS, suggestive of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)-induced immune restoration disease. After initiation of HAART, the patient presented with decreased visual acuity, hypoesthetic patch with local nerve thickening, and an increase in her CD4+ T cell count. On further investigations cytomegalovirus retinitis and tuberculoid leprosy were confirmed. To our knowledge no case with such a co-existence has previously been reported
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