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Failure of accommodation in patients with HIV infection
M C Westcott1, M Ward, S M Mitchell
1Department of Ophthalmology, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, UK.
Purpose:
The principal objective was to test the hypothesis that HIV-positive patients have significantly reduced amplitudes of accommodation compared with controls. The secondary objective was to investigate accommodative impairment in relation to factors such as age of susceptibility, CD4 count, viral load and current antiretroviral therapies.
Method:
The study was a single-center open prospective study involving a subject population of 43 HIV-positive men aged from 26 to 39 years with no previous history of eye problems and 21 age-matched healthy male controls. The main outcome measure was the amplitude of accommodation, as measured monocularly with a standard push-up technique.
Results:
Amplitudes of accommodation were significantly smaller in the HIV-positive group compared with controls for age groups 25-29 (p = 0.016) and 30-34 years (p = 0.030) but not in the older group. In total, 30% (8/27) of patients aged between 25 and 34 years had reduced amplitudes of accommodation below age-expected norms. Accommodative failure was not related to current or lowest CD4 count, viral load or specific antiretroviral therapies.
Conclusion:
This study has identified accommodative failure in a significant proportion of HIV-positive patients aged between 26 and 35 years. This problem may be under-recognised, and further studies are warranted to investigate possible causes.
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