"Acute Rhabdomyolysis Coincident With Primary HIV-1 Infection"

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"Acute Rhabdomyolysis Coincident With Primary HIV-1 Infection"

Lancet (12/16/89) Vol. 2, No. 8677, P. 1454
Mahe, Antoine, et al.

Abstract: Primary HIV-1 infection may have caused rhabdomyolysis in an 18-year-old patient from Mali, report Antoine Mahe and fellow researchers at the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy, Poissy, France. The researchers note that the man presented with a distinctive picture of primary HIV infection: lymphopenia, equivocal HIV-1 serology, and positive antigenemia (p24), followed by CD8 lymphocytosis, positive HIV-1 serology, and negative antigenaemia. Tests ruled out other viruses and infections. Although such cases are often reported, the researchers say they are not aware of similar cases involving mylagias, or muscle pains, in primary HIV-1 infection. They suggest repeated HIV-1 tests for patients with rhabdomyolysis of undetermined origin.

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