Thymic volume, T-cell populations, and parameters of thymopoiesis in adolescent and adult survivors of HIV infection acquired in infancy

AIDS
Jason C LeePaul Krogstad

Abstract

Antiretroviral therapy has significantly prolonged the lifespan of children who acquire HIV infection in infancy, but the impact of HIV on thymus-mediated maintenance of T lymphocytes has not been studied. To examine the long-term effects of HIV infection in childhood on thymopoiesis, thymic volume and parameters of thymic function from clinically stable adolescents and young adults with HIV infection acquired in infancy were compared with those from uninfected controls. Thymic volume was determined using three-dimensional reconstruction and volumetric analysis of non-contrast enhanced computed tomography images of the upper chest. The degree of fat involution was assessed using a semiquantitive scoring system. CD4 and CD8 T cell populations and T cell receptor recombination excision circles (TREC) concentrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes were measured in all subjects. Twenty youths (aged 17.6 +/- 2.5 years) with HIV infection acquired perinatally (n = 18) or by neonatal transfusion (n = 2) were enrolled whose HIV plasma viral load had been undetectable for a median of 3.1 years, along with 18 seronegative healthy young adults (aged 20.6 +/- 1.3 years). HIV infected subjects and controls had indistinguishable CD4 T cell c...Continue Reading

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