Clinical Aspects of HIV Flashcards
Describe HIV transmission?
Blood- IVDU, transfussion, needlesick injury
sexual transmission
mother to babay- birth, breast feeding
what is the HIv transmisison ratios of common methods of transmission?
needlestick injiury- 1:300
Mucuous membrane 1:1111
Vaginal receptive 1:500
vaginal insertive 1:1111- 1:3333
less risk to men who are cirumcside- lack langerhans cells in forekin which bind HIV
Anal recptive trnamsision higher than insertive
avergaes depemnd on the virla load of person
what factors increase the risk of HIV transmission in pregnnacy to baby?
high virla load
advanced immunodeficincy
IVDU
malnutrtion
complicated labour
how does HIV transmision occur in pregnancy
third trimester
during birth process
breat feeding
what factor has the largets impact on HIV transmission
HIv viral load, if undetectable no risk
if viral laod >200 copies/ml high risk
if less than 100 strugeel to pass on
increase risk with concomitnatn STI
Decribe HIv primary infection
- Drop in CD4 cells
- HIV viral laod si very high after infection 2-10 weeks falls after this rapidly
- acute HIV syndrom- non specific flu like symptoms, fever, swollen glands, sore throat
describe the clinical latency phase of HIV
takes around qo years between primary ifnection and AIDs defining illness
very few symptoms
graudl fall in Cd4 cells over the years- slow increase in HIV
what happens after Clinical latency phase of HIV
constituional symptoms
oppoutbisitc disase and
death
fall in Cd4 and large increase in HIV viral load
what is HIV seroconversion?
- HIv estblaish itself in the body- immune ssytem recognises- Antibodies
- 2-6 weeks after ecpsoure
- asymptomatic 20%
- symptomatci 80% of the time
what are the symptoms of HIV seroconversion
Symptomatric 80%
- rash (maculopapular)
- lymphadenopathy
- fever
- sore throat
- headache
- diarrhoeas
important to diagnose to prevent trnamsisison and prevnt AIDs
Rare neurlogical- Encephalitis, mononueritis
what 2 factros do we measure to determine the progression of HIV
- Viral load and CD4 counts
- 40% of patients have high Viral load and high CD4 >200 at diagnosis
- if you have high viral laof above >55x103 even with good CD4 counts chance of developoing AIDs defining illness woithin 3years is higher
Mainly cviral load which determines the probabilioty of AIds rather than CD4
what % of people are living with HIV and are undiagnosed
15%
what is Clinical stage 1 HIV infection
- asymptomatic
- generalised lymphadenopathy
- performance scale 1- asymptomatic normal activity
what is clinical stage 2 HIv infection
- weight loss <10% of body weight
- minor mucocutaneosu manifestations
- seborrheic dermatitis, fungal nail infection, reucrrent oral ulcerations
- herpes zoster within last 5 years (shinles)
- especially multidermatome
- recurrent URTI (bacterial sinusitis)
- and or performance casle 2- symptomatic normal acitivty
Describe CLinical stage III infection
- weight loss >10%
- unexplained chronic diarrhoeas >1 month
- unecplained prolonged fever (intermittiend or constant), 1 month
- Oral candidiasi
- oral hair leuoplakia
- Pulmonary tuberculossi
- severe bacterial infections