Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Associated Thrombocytopenia in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Rare Hematological Manifestation
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated thrombocytopenia was commonly encountered in the era prior to the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART). With the widespread use of ART, its incidence has significantly declined. Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is an immune dysregulation phenomenon that reveals itself clinically as paradoxical deterioration after the commencement of ART in HIV infected patients. It has a wide variety of clinical manifestations. However, hematologic involvement is rare. Here, we present a very rare case of IRIS associated thrombocytopenia. With this case we intend to create mindfulness of the possibility of IRIS being one of the explanations for thrombocytopenia.
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