[Ophthalmologic complications due to human immunodeficiency virus infection at Bamako (Mali)].
AIDS ocular complications have been researched in 70 hospitalised patients in the two main hospitals of Bamako (Mali) during one year (1992-1993). Men were predominant (sex ratio 1.6). HIV1 infections (67%) were most frequent than HIV1 + HIV2 (21.4%) or HIV2 infections (11.4%). Most of the patients were on the WHO's clinical stage III; 34% of them had ocular complications, quite often non infectious: cotonous nodules (10%), vascularitis (5.7%) and retineous haemorrhages (4.3%). Ocular opportunistic infections were rare: only one case of toxoplasmic chorio-retinitis was reported. Ocular complications were observed with all types of HIV. Vascular abnormalities were observed in the stage II or IV of AIDS and seemed, in Bamako, as a serious sign during the AIDS course.
Peyramaure
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Institut d'ophtalmologie tropicale de l'Afrique, DCCGE, Bamaka, Mali.
Pichard
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Guindo
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Resnikoff
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005123:Eye / Q000098:blood supply*; D015828:Eye Infections, Viral / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications*; D015497:HIV-1; D015498:HIV-2; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008302:Mali; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012166:Retinal Hemorrhage / Q000821:virology*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014504:Urban Health; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000821:virology*