PURPOSE: To identify and describe long-term posterior and anterior segment complications of immune recovery uveitis in patients with inactive cytomegalovirus retinitis who are undergoing highly active antiretroviral t...
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PURPOSE: To identify and describe long-term posterior and anterior segment complications of immune recovery uveitis in patients with inactive cytomegalovirus retinitis who are undergoing highly active antiretroviral therapy-mediated recovery of immune function. METHODS: A prospective cohort study at a university medical center. Twenty-nine eyes of 21 patients with immune recovery uveitis and inactive cytomegalovirus retinitis were followed for 14.5 to 116 weeks (median, 43 weeks) after diagnosis of immune recovery uveitis, RESULTS: Nine eyes of nine patients developed visually important complications involving the posterior segment, anterior segment, or a combination of both. Posterior segment complications included severe proliferative vitreoretinopathy in three eyes and spontaneous vitreous hemorrhage from avulsion of a blood vessel secondary to tory syndrome that may result in complications months to years after the onset of inflammation. (C) 2000 by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
PURPOSE: To investigate the clinical features associated with immune recovery in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis who are taking highly active antiretroviral therapy....
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PURPOSE: To investigate the clinical features associated with immune recovery in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis who are taking highly active antiretroviral therapy. METHODS: Sixteen patients were evaluated prospectively at the National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Evaluation included a medical history and a complete ophthalmologic examination. The examination included best corrected visual acuity score measured by means of logarithmic charts, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, dilated retinal examination, retinal photography, and fluorescein angiography. Immune-recovery uveitis was defined as the ocular inflammation associated with clinical immune the presence of moderate to severe macular edema on fluorescein angiography and vitreous haze (P less than or equal to .001). CONCLUSIONS: Immune-recovery uveitis is an important cause of visual morbidity in HIV-infected patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Although immune recovery associated with highly active antiretroviral therapy has allowed some patients to discontinue specific anticytomegalovirus therapy, the rejuvenated immune response can be associated with sight-threatening inflammation. Published by Elsevier Science Inc.
PURPOSE: Cytomegalovirus retinitis is the most com, mon intraocular infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). With prolonged suppressive anticytomegalovirus maintenance therapy, resistance ...
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PURPOSE: Cytomegalovirus retinitis is the most com, mon intraocular infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). With prolonged suppressive anticytomegalovirus maintenance therapy, resistance occurs in over 25% of patients. We evaluated longitudinal changes in the cytomegalovirus genotype in patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis who developed ganciclovir resistance that was demonstrated in either the blood or urine. METHODS: Patients with AIDS and previously untreated cytomegalovirus retinitis were followed prospectively for the occurrence of resistance while on treatment. Blood and urine specimens were obtained periodically for cytomegalovirus culture according to a predetermined schedule. Positive isolates were tested for phenotypic susceptibility and for mutations in the UL97 and UL54 genes. RESULTS: A mutation conferring resistance to ganciclovir in either the UL97 or UL54 gene was detected in 18 patients. In general, patients with a genotypically resistant virus developed increasing phenotypic resistance over time. There was a suggestion that unless therapy was changed, UL97 mutations tended to persist. In seven of eight patients, the mutations identified in isolates from the blood and urine were identical. In selected patients, there was a suggestion that a mixed population of cytomegalovirus might be present. Progression of the retinitis in an involved eye (15 of 18), contralateral eye retinitis (10 of 11), and extraocular cytomegalovirus disease (5 of 18) occurred commonly among patients with resistant virus. CONCLUSION: Resistance-conferring mutations in the cytomegalovirus genome emerge and may persist when the selective pressure for resistance is maintained. Some patients appear to harbor complex subpopulations of virus with different mutations and different levels of phenotypic resistance. Changes in therapy may result in a shift in virus population and changes in the cytomegalovirus genotype identified. (C) 2001 by Elsevier Sc
PURPOSE: To determine the relationship between plasma and intraocular human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) viral loads in 12 consecutive patients undergoing ganciclovir implant surgery for cytomegalovirus (CMV) reti...
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PURPOSE: To determine the relationship between plasma and intraocular human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) viral loads in 12 consecutive patients undergoing ganciclovir implant surgery for cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis. METHODS: Aqueous and vitreous specimens were assayed for HIV-1 viral load by polymerase chain reaction analysis (Roche Amplicor HIV Monitor;Roche Diagnostics Systems, Inc, Branchburg, New Jersey). RESULTS: It was possible to quantitatively assay HIV-1 burden in intraocular fluids using polymerase chain reaction analysis. In general, patients with plasma viral loads less than 250,000 copies/ml had undetectable (<200 copies/ml) HIV-1 in their aqueous and vitreous. CONCLUSIONS: It is likely that intraocular viral levels have several determinants in addition to plasma viral loads, with which they only partially correlate. (Am J Ophthalmol 1999;127:221-223. (C) 1999 by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.).
%In March 1998, the American Journal of Ophthalmology featured a cluster of publications[1, 2 and 3] that focused on the emerging problem of intraocular inflammation in patients with human immunodeficiency virus disea...
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%In March 1998, the American Journal of Ophthalmology featured a cluster of publications[1, 2 and 3] that focused on the emerging problem of intraocular inflammation in patients with human immunodeficiency virus disease. Included was one of the early descriptions of "immune recovery uveitis," a condition in which heightened intraocular inflammatory reactions, attributable to the improved immune function associated with new potent antiretroviral therapies, occurs in some patients with preexisting cytomegalovirus retinitis. [3 and 4] Now, 2 years later, immune recovery uveitis is believed to be the leading cause of severe, new vision loss in patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. [5] Nevertheless, the disorder remains poorly understood. A recently published study^6 and two additional articles^7,8 in this issue of the journal address some of the questions that have arisen about immune recovery uveitis, and highlight many of the problems that remain to be solved.
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