[Two cases of HIV infection accompanied with borderline personality disorder].
We report here two cases of HIV infection with a borderline personality disorder. Case 1 was a 25-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with HIV infection 4 years ago. Borderline personality disorder was also diagnosed at that time. Although he was referred to our hospital in 1999, we had to refer him to another hospital for his regular outpatient hemodialysis. Case 2 was a 24-year-old male patient who had borderline personality disorder since 1996. He was diagnosed with HIV infection in 1999 and referred to our hospital. He ignored rules in visiting clinics such as prior reservations and frequently called doctors, case-workers and nurses. After several visit he intentionally took excessive sedative medicines and called a case-workers at our hospital. He was admitted to our hospital for three days. After he was discharged, we set limitations for his behavior not to harm himself and to obey the rules in visiting clinics. In other countries investigators report that borderline personality disorder is more common in HIV-infected persons. It may be because persons with borderline personality disorder are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behavior, which is also applicable to these two cases. As HIV infection is rapidly prevailing in Japan, it is possible that the chance are that this disorder will be seen more frequently in HIV infected cases.
Hagiwara
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E
First-Department of Internal Medicine, Yokohama City University School of Medicine 3-9, Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0004.
Katsuse
O
O
Okubo
T
T
Shirai
A
A
Itoh
A
A
Ishigatsubo
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D001727:Bisexuality; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male