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Photosensitive disorders in HIV
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine | Vol 18, No 1 | a676 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v18i1.676
| © 2017 Karen Koch
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 09 August 2016 | Published: 31 August 2017
Submitted: 09 August 2016 | Published: 31 August 2017
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Karen Koch, Wits University Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South AfricaAbstract
Photosensitive disorders are common, affecting up to 5% of HIV-positive patients. HIV itself induces photosensitivity but photoaggravated drug reactions, porphyria cutanea tarda and nutritional disorders such as pellagra are also more common in patients with HIV. In South Africa, actinic lichenoid leukomelanoderma of HIV is a unique photosensitive disorder which is associated with advanced HIV. It is important to be able to recognise these conditions and withdraw photosensitising medications wherever possible.
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Dermatology; drug reactions; photosensitive; HIV; porphyria
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