ArticleCurrent HIV/AIDS reports2008
Ocular complications of HIV infection in sub-Sahara Africa.
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- Prevalence and Risk Factors for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among People Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Antiretroviral Therapy Era: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Performance of a 3D-Printed Smartphone-Based Retinal Imaging Device as a Screening Tool for Retinal Pathology in Mozambique.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Epstein-Barr Virus, But Not Human Papillomavirus, Is Associated With Preinvasive and Invasive Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasias in Zambian Patients.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Histopathological profile of orbito-ocular cancers at a tertiary hospital in Northern Malawi: a retrospective cross-sectional study.BMJ open ophthalmology · 2022Article
- Ocular surface squamous neoplasia in HIV-infected patients: current perspectives.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Review
- Ocular surface squamous neoplasia as the initial presenting sign of human immunodeficiency virus infection in 60 Asian Indian patients.International ophthalmology · 2017Article
- Telemedicine screening for cytomegalovirus retinitis at the point of care for human immunodeficiency virus infection.JAMA ophthalmology · 2015Article
- Bilateral atypical optic neuritis associated with tuberculosis in an immunocompromised patient.Asian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine · 2012Article
- Prevalence and clinical management of cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients in Shanghai, China.BMC infectious diseases · 2011Article
- Ophthalmic pterygium: a stem cell disorder with premalignant features.The American journal of pathology · 2011Article
- Cytomegalovirus retinitis and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome--bench to bedside: LXVII Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture.American journal of ophthalmology · 2011Article
- Ocular surface squamous neoplasia in patients with HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa.Current opinion in oncology · 2010Review
- Optimal management of cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with AIDS.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2010Article
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Abstract
This article reviews the magnitude and spectrum of ocular complications of HIV infection in sub-Sahara Africa. A literature search was done using PubMed, Google, and UpToDate and by talking to ophthalmologists and HIV experts working in the region. Ocular complications of HIV infection, mostly retinal, are seen in 29% to 71% of patients. Cytomegalovirus retinitis affects 0% to 16.5% of HIV-infected patients and is treated successfully with intravitreal ganciclovir in South Africa and Botswana. Ocular surface squamous neoplasia is seen in 4% to 7.8% of persons with HIV (a 5%-6% increase in Uganda and Tanzania), and recurrence after surgery occurs in 3.2% to 31.2%. In Zimbabwe, 45% of meningitis in adults is cryptococcal, and cryptococcal meningitis is the third leading cause of death in HIV patients in rural Uganda. In Rwanda, 9% of patients with cryptococcal meningitis developed visual loss and sixth nerve palsy. Thus, HIV infection leads to significant ocular morbidity in sub-Sahara Africa.
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