Neuromuscular diseases associated with HIV
What neuromuscular conditions are associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection?
A large percentage of patients with HIV report myalgias and fatigue. However, one must also evaluate for other myopathic pathologies:
• HIV-associated polymyositis
• IBM
• Nemaline myopathy
• Mitochondrial myopathy due to antiretroviral drugs
• Diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome
• HIV-wasting syndrome
• Vasculitic processes
• Lactic acidosis, hepatic steatosis, and myopathy
