Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and opportunistic infections

Lina Dvaranauskaitė, Daiva Vėlyvytė¹, Virginija Kurklietytė², Antanas Gumbelevičius³, Evaldas Keleras⁴, Alvydas Laiškonis¹, Auksė Mickienė¹

Department of Nephrology, ¹Department of Infectious Diseases, Kaunas University of Medicine, ²Kaunas 2nd Clinical Hospital, ³Department of Ophthalmology, ⁴Department of Radiology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania

Key words: AIDS; cerebral toxoplasmosis; cytomegalovirus retinitis; HIV retinopathy; immune reconstitution uveitis.

Summary. This article presents a clinical case of late diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis and cytomegalovirus retinitis of right eye in a 32-year-old patient who was unaware of her HIV status. In addition, this article reviews the literature reflecting clinical, diagnostic, and treatment issues of some opportunistic infections in AIDS.

Correspondence to A. Mickienė, Department of Infectious Diseases, Kaunas University of Medicine, Baltijos 120, 47116 Kaunas, Lithuania. E-mail: amickiene@yahoo.com

Received 30 September 2008, accepted 6 November 2009