Intraocular pressure in patients with human immunodeficiency virus, correlation with TCD4, viral load and demographic characteristics: a case-control study.

To compare if patients with HIV have lower intraocular pressure than patients without HIV. The association of intraocular pressure corrected by pachymetry and the relationship with viral load (VL) and TCD4 cells was studied. A total of 99 patients with HIV (91 who were on regular treatment and in control of the disease - group 1; and 8 who were without treatment - group 2) and 100 controls were studied. Only age was of statistical significance; the group with HIV without control of the disease was the youngest. There was a decrease of -1.54 mmHg in the IOP of group 1 in relation to the controls and -3.63 mmHg in the IOP of group 2 in relation to the controls. HIV patients had lower IOP than the control population. However, the relationship between IOP, VL and TCD4 was not found.

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Leonardo Medlig de Sousa Cravo, Ana Luiza Biancardi, Thamiles Batista Ronconi, Vinicius Layter Xavier, Haroldo Moraes. Intraocular pressure in patients with human immunodeficiency virus, correlation with TCD4, viral load and demographic characteristics: a case-control study. Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.). 2019;13:1477-1483

PMID: 31496638

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