Vasculitis

Microcirculation lesions are well document­ed by biopsies of the nervous system and muscles in AIDS peripheral neuromuscular localizations. In a cohort study published before HAART, vasculitis was present in 24% of biopsy samples from 225 patients: 12 cytomegalovirus vasculitis, 19 “micro-vas­culitis,” and 1 giant cells arteritis case [3]. Kieburtz et al. [4] described Candida albi­cans vasculitis with thrombosis and a cere­bral infarction due to cytomegalovirus vas­culitis in AIDS patients.