Rheumatic masks of HIV infection: observation from practice
This clinical observation describes the development in the HIV-infected patient of a secondary phospholipid syndrome against HIV infection and cryoglobulinemic vasculitis as an extrahepatic manifestation of viral hepatitis C. Very often in HIV infection, patients have joint and spinal lesions that can mimic rheumatic diseases and syndromes, so they are also called rheumatic masks of HIV infection. Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis is one of the frequent extrahepatic manifestations of viral hepatitis B and C. The case where viral hepatitis C can be associated not only with cryoglobulinemia and vasculitis, but also with antiphospholipid syndrome is described [2].