Association between HIV distal symmetric polyneuropathy and Mycobacterium avium complex infection

Woolley, Ian; Faragher, Mark; Spelman, Denis

doi:10.1136/jnnp.63.4.556b

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“…5 However, the association between CTS and HIV infection has only been reported anecdotally related with Mycobacterium avium complex co-infection. 6 After the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), few case reports have been published and postulated a possible association of the CTS with the prolonged use of viral protease inhibitors (PIs). 5 This communication describes the first case of CTS in a Cuban HIV-infected patient.…”

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Hiv Infection. A Case Report and Literature Review

Reyes-Corcho

Barrueta-Reyes

Bouza-Jiménez

et al. 2009

Infectious Disease Reports

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The first clinical case of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in Cuban HIV-infected patient was described, and the scientific literature indexed in: PUBMED/MEDLINE, LILACS and BIREME were revised. The case presented was a male with HIV infection without preceding opportunistic illnesses, CD4+ T cell count over 200 cells/mm3 and clinical symptoms of pain, tingling and numbness in the right hand and wrist for three months. The electrophysiological study was compatible with CTS. The pharmacological treatment did not modify the symptoms and the patient received specific surgical treatment with absolute resolution of symptoms. CTS is a compressive neuropathy that can occur in HIV-positive individuals with as similar frequency as in the general population. The association between HIV infection and CTS is scarcely described in the medical scientific literature and probably does not represent a different phenomenon from what happens in the HIV-negative population. Nevertheless, its clinical recognition among other neurological and muscle-skeletal manifestations in HIV-infected patients is important.

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Hiv Infection. A Case Report and Literature Review

Reyes-Corcho

Barrueta-Reyes

Bouza-Jiménez

et al. 2009

Infectious Disease Reports

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Botulinum Neurotoxin Treatment of Cranial-Cervical Dystonia

Kenney¹,

Jankovic²

2009

Botulinum Toxin

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Carpal tunnel syndrome in HIV patients?

Asensio

Caso

Rojas

2002

AIDS

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A wide range of rheumatic and peripheral nervous system disorders may develop in patients with HIV infection , leading to pain, sensory symptoms, and muscle weakness. Over the past three decades, the progress in management of HIV disease with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has resulted in increased life expectancy for people living with HIV disease. With this new chronicity of the disease has a constellation of chronic musculo-skeletal, orthopaedic and rheumatic manifestations has emerged, as potential complications of the disease itself and/or the results of ART treatment regimen and/or because of expected age-related symptoms/manifestations. The incidence of CTS in the general population is around 3.8% with clinical examination and, when electroneu-romyography is used, it is 2.7%. In the HIV-positive population, the incidence is very close to that of the general population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of CTS and to identify factors influencing the development of CTS in HIV-infected patients attending our clinic. This syndrome has been associated with advanced HIV disease and the use of ART possibly due to an increased inflammatory state and the presence of concurrent HCV infection.

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Association between HIV distal symmetric polyneuropathy and Mycobacterium avium complex infection

Cited by 5 publications

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Hiv Infection. A Case Report and Literature Review

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Hiv Infection. A Case Report and Literature Review

Botulinum Neurotoxin Treatment of Cranial-Cervical Dystonia

Carpal tunnel syndrome in HIV patients?

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