Photosensitive disorders in HIV

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.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine

• Publication date

  2017-08-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4102/sajhivmed.v18i1.676PMID 29568622PMCID 5842981
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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