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[Ulcerative colitis and HIV infection]
A I Gutiérrez1, I Martín, C Ramos
1Unidad de Infecciosos, Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza.
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FUNDAMENTAL: The difficulties to raise to a correct diagnosis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and diarrhea, and the few cases reported of ulcerative colitis in the context of HIV infection.
Objective:
Description of 2 cases of ulcerative colitis in patients with HIV infection and the possibility of immunopathogenic relationship between them.
Material And Methods:
The clinic history of the patients, the anatomopathological diagnosis after the colon biopsy and the determination of CD4 cells.
Results:
In case 1 the low level of CD4 cells didn't stop the aggressivity of ulcerative colitis. However, in both cases there was a good evolution of colitis after treatment although AIDS.
Conclusion:
It is necessary to study more cases of inflammatory bowel disease in patients with HIV infection to determine the influence of the level of CD4 cells in the enteropathy's evolution.