[Liver changes in HIV/AIDS]

Loss of cellular immunity accompanying the progressive HIV/AIDS disease, results in altered clinical picture and outcome of traditional infections as well as severe and often lethal illness caused by facultative pathogens. Unusual infections may call the attention to the underlining HIV disease. Liver disease appears in the great majority of HIV/AIDS patients. The authors review the viral, bacterial, fungal and protozoal infections involving the liver in AIDS. Liver biopsy has a diagnostic value beside the serology and bacteriology and may give therapeutic consequences.