Eye manifestations in HIV

Abstract

HIV infection is one of the word’s priority public health problem. Studies shows that up to 50-75% of HIV/AIDS patients have at least one ocular manifestation during their lifetime. The severity of the ophthalmic sequelae of HIV infection increases as their immunocompetence decreases. This condition can affect any part of eyeball from anterior segment (17%) to the posterior (44%), both directly and indirectly through complications associated with infections, tumors, HIV treatment. The changes of the anterior segment include: conjunctival micro-vasculopathy, dry eye syndrome, fungal and infectious keratitis, infectious, autoimmune or toxic iridocyclitis, complicated cataract; posterior changes include HIV retinal microangiopathy, infectious retinitis, choroiditis, chorioretinitis, knowledge of this changes can lead to improvement of life quality of patients with HIV.