Case Reports
Occlusive vasculopathy in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated vasculitis: unusual clinical and imaging course
E. Ripoll1, S. Prieto-González2, O. Balagué3, J. Marco-Hernández4, J.M. Miró5, A. Darnell6, M.C. Cid7, J. Hernández-Rodríguez8
- Department of Radiology, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Vasculitis Research Unit, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Vasculitis Research Unit, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Infectious Diseases Service; Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Department of Radiology, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Vasculitis Research Unit, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Vasculitis Research Unit, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Spain. jhernan@clinic.ub.es
CER9602
2017 Vol.35, N°1 ,Suppl.103
PI 0185, PF 0188
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PMID: 27974095 [PubMed]
Received: 25/05/2016
Accepted : 29/09/2016
In Press: 14/12/2016
Published: 20/04/2017
Abstract
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated vasculitis is a rare secondary systemic vasculitis involving small and medium arteries. We report a 42-year-old man with uncontrolled HIV infection presenting with long-lasting abdominal pain. An abdominal CT angiography revealed multiple microaneurysms and stenoses in intrarenal arteries, with involvement of mesenteric and hepatic arteries. HIV-associated vasculitis was diagnosed and glucocorticoids and raltegravir-based antiretroviral therapy were administered with good initial clinical and virological response. Several episodes of acute intestinal ischaemia were later developed requiring bowel resections of which histological examination showed vascular occlusive fibrotic changes without active vasculitic lesions. Vasculitis persisted in remission and intrarenal microaneurysms disappeared.
