TY - JOUR
T1 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus as Progressive Primary Myopathy
T2 - A Possibility in Children? A Rare Case Report
AU - Shashidhara, Sowmya
AU - Trivedi, Sangita
AU - Shah, Pinkal
AU - Jha, Bharati
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Human immunodeficiency virus infection in children has a different way of presentation. The involvement of muscular system is most commonly described as pyomyositis because of opportunistic infections or myopathy secondary to highly active antiretroviral therapy in both children and adults. Primary myopathy presenting as a progressive weakness is usually seen in adults and rarely observed in children with only a few cases described in the literature. In this case, we report a 7-year-old Indian girl with perinatal HIV infection presenting with progressive weakness and otherwise asymptomatic. An improvement was observed after antiretroviral and rehabilitative therapy.
AB - Human immunodeficiency virus infection in children has a different way of presentation. The involvement of muscular system is most commonly described as pyomyositis because of opportunistic infections or myopathy secondary to highly active antiretroviral therapy in both children and adults. Primary myopathy presenting as a progressive weakness is usually seen in adults and rarely observed in children with only a few cases described in the literature. In this case, we report a 7-year-old Indian girl with perinatal HIV infection presenting with progressive weakness and otherwise asymptomatic. An improvement was observed after antiretroviral and rehabilitative therapy.
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U2 - 10.1097/IPC.0000000000000497
DO - 10.1097/IPC.0000000000000497
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020537511
SN - 1056-9103
VL - 25
SP - 226
EP - 228
JO - Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
JF - Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
IS - 4
ER -
