Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome after highly active antiretroviral therapy: a review Running title: A review of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome Key words: HIV, AIDS, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, HAART, oral manifestations

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in CNS tuberculosis.

BACKGROUND Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS), an exaggerated inflammatory response with clinical worsening due to immune recovery during treatment, is rare in the immune-competent population. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 5-½-year old immune-competent girl with CNS tuberculosis without HIV who developed paradoxical IRIS. OUTCOME Response to supportive care along with Anti-tubercul...

The aware, alert, avert strategy for immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in HIV/AIDS

1. Shahani L, Hamill RJ. Therapeutics targeting inflammation in the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Transl Sir, HIV immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is one of the most significant challenges of highly active antiretroviral treatment (ART) faced by physicians across the world. Through this letter, I wish to draw the attention of readers to a simple aware, alert, av...

Increased incidence of genital herpes after HAART initiation: a frequent presentation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in HIV-infected patients.

The goal of ARV therapy in immunocompromised HIV-infected individuals is immune reconstitution. However, an aberrant manifestation of this effect sometimes occurs. Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), also known as immune restoration disease, refers to a diseaseor pathogen-specific inflammatory response in HIV-infected patients that may be triggered after:  Initiation or re-init...

Guillain Barre syndrome in an HIV-1-infected patient after the beginning of combined antiretroviral therapy: an immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?

HIV-1-associated Guillan-Barre syndrome (hGBS) is an ascendant progressive polyradiculoneuropathy described throughout the course of the viral disease, mainly associated with the acute retroviral syndrome. HGBS is occasionally described in severely immunocompromised subjects in the context of the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. The case described occurred soon after the start of a ...

Severe leukoencephalopathy with fulminant cerebral edema reflecting immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome during HIV infection: a case report

INTRODUCTION Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome is a well-known complication in HIV-infected patients after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy resulting in rapid CD4+ cell count recovery and suppression of viral load. Generally, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome is based on opportunistic infections, but rare cases of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome...