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An infant with diarrhea, failure to thrive, and a seborrhea-like skin eruption was thought to have fatal familial Leiner's syndrome. Treatment with nonirradiated plasma was followed by graft-vs-host disease and fatal toxic epidermal necrolysis; thymic hypoplasia was found at autopsy. Accurate diagnosis of immunodeficiency syndromes is essential to avoid potentially harmful therapy.
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PMID:Toxic epidermal necrolysis from graft-vs-host disease. Occurrence in a patient with thymic hypoplasia. 2 35

Children who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus may develop a wide variety of mucocutaneous manifestations, such as skin infections, tumors, and inflammatory skin disorders. The most significant infectious diseases are candidiasis, dermatophytosis, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and pyoderma. Inflammatory disorders include seborrheic dermatitis, vasculitis, and pyoderma gangrenosum. Kaposi sarcoma is extremely rare in children with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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PMID:Cutaneous manifestations of pediatric HIV infection. 149 46

Cutaneous manifestations are common in patients infected with HIV and tend to be more frequent as immunodeficiency progresses. It remains, however, unclear which or how many with HIV-1 infection will develop skin disease. This paper presents and describes the commonly reported skin diseases occurring in people with HIV-1 infection. Observed infections include herpes zoster, herpes simplex, chancroid, syphilis, condylomata acuminata, oral hairy leukoplakia, molluscum contagiosum, candidiasis, bacterial infections, dermatophytosis, and scabies. Noninfective conditions such as pruritic papular eruption, seborrhoeic dermatitis, psoriasis, and others may also present. Regarding disease etiology, a transient maculopapular rash may present in the initial stage of HIV infection. Seborrhoeic dermatitis, persistent genital ulcer disease, pruritic papular eruption, and/or a variety of scaling dermatoses may then be observed during the otherwise asymptomatic phase. Kaposi's sarcoma is the most frequent skin tumor associated with HIV disease. It is also observed that skin manifestations of adverse reactions to drugs occur more frequently in patients with HIV disease than in immunocompetent patients. In closing, most skin diseases associated with HIV disease respond well to standard treatment regimens. Relapses and/or recurrences are, however, frequent among these patients.
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PMID:Cutaneous findings associated with HIV disease including AIDS: experience from Sub Saharan Africa. 149 76

Cutaneous eruptions are commonly seen in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Seborrheic dermatitis in this patient population is usually more severe and difficult to diagnose and treat. The butterfly distribution of the rash and the interpretation of the biopsy may suggest a diagnosis of discoid lupus erythematosus, unless the pathologist is aware of the underlying immunodeficiency. We present two cases of patients with documented acquired immunodeficiency syndrome whose initial biopsies were interpreted as discoid lupus but whose cutaneous seborrheic dermatitis actually paralleled human immunodeficiency virus disease activity.
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PMID:Seborrheic dermatitis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 183 39

Papulosquamous eruptions are the most frequently seen cutaneous manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Especially common and useful in making a diagnosis of HIV infection are seborrheic dermatitis, xerosis or ichthyosis, and a pruritic or papular eruption. There is some evidence from transgenic mice studies that the transactivating gene TAT and the HIV provirus may produce epidermal hyperplasia, either directly or through cytokine production, without associated immunodeficiency. The association of certain papulosquamous diseases, especially psoriasis, with HIV has opened up new avenues of research on pathogenesis of hyperproliferative skin disease.
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PMID:Papulosquamous disorders associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection. 187 30

The vast majority of children with infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develop some form of mucocutaneous disease during the course of their illness. Candidal, fungal, bacterial, and viral infections of the skin and mucous membranes tend to be more severe and less responsive to therapy than in the healthy child. Children with HIV infection are also at risk for drug eruptions, seborrheic dermatitis, and several other inflammatory disorders of the skin. An understanding of the cutaneous manifestations of HIV infection may aid in the early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of this disease.
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PMID:Cutaneous manifestations of HIV infection in children. 187 31

Psoralen and UVA radiation inactivate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in vitro whereas UVB and UVC radiation under experimental conditions transactivate HIV. We studied the effect of systemic PUVA treatment on immunologic and virologic findings in five HIV-infected patients. Systemic PUVA was given in two-4-week periods, 2 months apart. The total irradiation ranged from 30 to 262 joules/cm2. All skin lesions, including therapy-resistant psoriasis vulgaris, seborrheic dermatitis, folliculitis, and chronic urticaria, cleared during the first weeks of PUVA. A slight increase in the CD4 lymphocyte numbers was seen in two patients. Serum beta 2-microglobulin values and urine neopterin values remained steady, and the elevated serum immunoglobulin values became normal in all patients. The PUVA treatment did not induce appearance of HIV antigen in serum and HIV isolation was repeatedly negative in all patients whose cultures were initially negative. Lymphocyte recall responses to purified protein derivative (tuberculin) became positive in three and to HIV-specific antigens in two patients. These responses, however, were transient. All patients except one, who was positive for HIV antigen at entry, have remained well 1 year after PUVA therapy.
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PMID:Effect of PUVA on immunologic and virologic findings in HIV-infected patients. 206 36

The skin is commonly affected in the course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In many cases, skin findings may be the earliest sign of HIV disease or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. When cutaneous diseases occur in unusual settings, such as zoster in a young individual, are increased in severity or fail to respond to routine therapy, the possibility of underlying immunodeficiency should be suspected. Skin diseases in HIV-infected hosts include primary infections, such as those caused by herpes simplex virus and molluscum contagiosum, as well as secondary involvement of systemic diseases, such as cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis. Noninfectious inflammatory processes, such as seborrheic dermatitis and psoriasis, as well as neoplasms, such as Kaposi's sarcoma and basal cell carcinoma, may all be seen in these patients. We review a number of these diseases and discuss their treatment. Clinicians must be aware of the cutaneous manifestations of HIV infection so that the disease will be recognized at an earlier point in time and therapy with zidovudine and prophylactic antibiotics will be instituted where appropriate.
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PMID:Human immunodeficiency virus infection and the skin. 152 61

We review the spectrum of papulosquamous disorders in the setting of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Included is a discussion of xerosis generalisata, seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, pityriasis rosea-like eruption, keratoderma blennorrhagicum, acquired ichthyosis, and erythroderma. Mechanisms of pathogenesis, including possible common pathways and relationships to underlying immunosuppression, are emphasized.
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PMID:Papulosquamous dermatoses of AIDS. 214 68

Interferon-gamma-induced protein 10 is a 10-kd protein produced by human keratinocytes following an exposure to interferon gamma. Keratinocytes within psoriatic plaques and within delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions have been shown to stain strongly with an affinity-purified rabbit antibody prepared against interferon-gamma-induced protein 10, suggesting a possible role for interferon gamma in the production of the lesions. A psoriasiform eruption has been seen in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Its severity appears to correlate with the degree of immunodeficiency in the early stages of AIDS. We stained 10 lesions of psoriasiform dermatitis of AIDS with the anti-interferon-gamma-induced protein 10 antibody using immunoperoxidase techniques. As controls, we studied 10 lesions of non-AIDS psoriasis, six lesions of seborrheic dermatitis with psoriasiform hyperplasia, one lesion of lichen simplex chronicus, and four biopsy specimens of normal skin from patients with AIDS. In addition, normal skin specimens taken from patients with AIDS and human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients at time of autopsy were examined. An identical, strong and diffuse staining pattern was seen in all cases of psoriasiform dermatitis of AIDS, non-AIDS psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis, and lichen simplex chronicus. The specimens of normal skin showed only weak basal layer staining with anti-interferon-gamma-induced protein 10. Thus, the presence of interferon-gamma-induced protein 10 in keratinocytes was associated with psoriasiform hyperplasia and could be detected in both AIDS-associated and classic psoriasis.
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PMID:Detection of the interferon-gamma-induced protein 10 in psoriasiform dermatitis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 214 26


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