Toxicities

Eye Disease Develops Following HAART

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 3rd, 1999

Researchers in France report the cases of nine HIV infected patients who developed cystoid macular oedema following the administration of antiretroviral therapy.

"Although cystoid macular oedema (CMO) is a rare cause of visual loss in AIDS related cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, nine cases are reported of CMO occurring in HIV infected patients with a prior diagnosis of CMV who were receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)," N. Cassoux and colleagues wrote ("Cystoid Macular Oedema and Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Patients with HIV Disease Treated with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy," British Journal of Ophthalmology 1999;83(1):47-49).

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