Volume 24, Issue 105, September - October, 2020

Chickenpox in HIV-infected 11-years old child with lethal outcome

Halyna Lytvyn¹, Iryna Dybas², Olga Hladchenko³, Natalia Ivanchenko⁴, Filip Pajak⁵

¹Assoc. Prof., Department of peadiatric infectious diseases, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv, National Medical University, Ukraine; tel. +38(067)7420493, Email: golytvyn2002@gmail.com
²Assoc. Prof., Department of peadiatric infectious diseases, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv, National Medical University, Ukraine; tel. +38(097) 2898285, Email: idybas24@gmail.com
³Assist prof., Department of peadiatric infectious diseases, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv, National Medical University, Ukraine; tel. +38(096) 7775377, Email: hladchenko.olya@gmail.com
⁴Assist prof., Department of infectious diseases, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv, National Medical University, Ukraine; tel. +38(067) 1674584, Email: timknat@ukr.net
⁵Post-graduate student, Medical faculty, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv, National Medical University, Ukraine; tel. +48695522032, Email: phillip.pajak@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The case presents a severe form of generalized chickenpox in an 11-year-old HIV-positive child. Simultaneous lack of prior anti retro viral therapy, concealment of the child's HIV status, late request for medical help and many factors were seen. Delayed adequate specific treatment led to a dramatic lethal course of the disease.

Keywords: children, HIV, varicella, immunosuppression, complications

Medical Science, 2020, 24(105), 3101-3105

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