Rheumatic manifestations in patients with HIV infection

Abstract

Infection with human acquired immunodeficiency virus has become a global pandemic, the prevalence in Colombia in 2008 was 0.6% to 0.8%.

During the past 21 years, since the infection became widely known, rheumatic manifestations of immune deficiency have been detected. The advancement of antiretroviral therapy has shown that these manifestations are more related to the treatment than to the infection itself.

A search of the literature was conducted using MeSH terms in Pub med. One hundred and thirty one eligible articles were found.

HIV infection and AIDS have a variety of rheumatologic manifestations, which may even be the debut of the infection.

The spondyloarthropathies are the most common rheumatologic expression.

The initiation of high-efficiency antiretroviral therapy in 1996 was a major breakthrough in the evolution of HIV-infection and associated rheumatic manifestations