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Vasculitis and Hiv

Hello,i want to ask you if someone has hiv for years(7)and doesn t know it and find it by accindent during a periodo that has been diagnosed with vasculitis glomerulonephritis,is it possible to treat it and be ok for many years?Please let me now i...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

HIV can cause kidney damage (usually with protein loss in urine and not standard vascular glomerulonephritis). HIV may have some association with vasculitis but link is not clear. Some HIV meds can cause kindey problems (such as tenofovir or stone... Read more »

Viral Loads /CD4

My brother was just released from Mercy Scripps Sat., Feb. 9th 2002. He has AIDS, Hep B, and Vasculitis.His HIV viral load is 9,700 and CD4 is at 57. The dr's strarted him on the antiviral meds Feb 7th. Since he's been home all he is...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thank you for your question.It is difficult to know exactly what is happening to your brother; it would be helpful to know what kind of CD4 cell and viral load response he has had to therapy. The later is especially important, since without an... Read more »

KS

What other conditions could resemble KS? Some types of vasculitis maybe??? ...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

Bacillary angiomatosis can sometimes resemble KS. I have not seen any vasculitic lesions that look like KS.... Read more »

can HIV cause thinner blood vessel?

Dear Dr,I'm a doctor from Asia. I have a patient who is infected 20 months ago.Till now , he still does not take any anti-hiv medicine. I noticed that, his blood vessel in both arms are becoming much thinner than that of one year ago. The...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

I am not aware of HIV causing vessel thinning. However, numerous reports are present in the literature of HIV associated large and small vessel vasculitis. Whether HIV is causal is not clear. Their are some in vitro studies suggesting that HIV... Read more »

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