Saudi Journal of Pathology and Microbiology (SJPM)
Volume-3 | Issue-06 | 157-166
Original Research Article
Histopathological Study of Dermatological Lesions in HIV Patients
Priyanka Pappala, Vallamreddy Siva Kota Reddy
Published : June 30, 2018
Abstract
HIV-related cutaneous manifestations are very common and can be easily
detected. If studied systematically, they can serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers.
It is aimed to study the skin biopsies of various dermatological manifestations that
occur in HIV seropositive patients attended to a tertiary care centre. This is a
prospective study of cases of 104 were studied histopathologically who were
Seropositive for HIV. Majority are of 31- 40 years (32.69%), and closely followed by
the age group 21-30 years (28.84 %). Patients of both sexes were affected with males
females ratio of 1.19:1. The most common cutaneous manifestation observed was
Papulosquamous lesions with 37.5% cases and in this 53.84% cases were pruritic
papular urticaria. Infections observed were 25%, among which majority were of
bacterial infections. Drug reactions were observed in 15.3% of cases and majority of
patients presented with Stevens Johnson syndrome. Dermatitis was seen in 11.53% of
patients and seborrheic dermatitis is the common non-infectious dermatosis. Other
cutaneous manifestations like vascular involvement, neoplasms contributed minority of
cases. Most of the patients presented with cutaneous manifestations having CD4 count
in the range of 350-500. It was conclude that the dermatological lesions are extremely
common and may present with early, severe, unusual and atypical manifestations in the
course of HIV infection. Awareness of the varied pattern of these manifestations would
help in the early diagnosis and management of HIV infection, which would in turn
decrease the morbidity and improve the quality of life of HIV-infected patients.