Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Retroviral rebound syndrome after treatment discontinuation in a 15 year old girl with HIV attracted through mother-to-child transmission: case report. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Open Access Case report Retroviral rebound syndrome after treatment discontinuation in a 15 year old girl with HIV attracted through mother-to-child transmission case report Vanda Friman and Magnus Gisslén Address Department of Infectious Diseases the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gõteborg University Sweden Email Vanda Friman - Magnus Gisslén - Corresponding author Published 23 February 2007 Received 9 January 2007 AIDS Research and Therapy 2007 4 3 doi 1742-6405-4-3 Accepted 23 February 2007 This article is available from http content 4 1 3 2007 Friman and Gisslén licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A case of a 15 year old girl with retroviral rebound syndrome after discontinuation of highly active antiretroviral treatment HAART due to side effects is presented. The patient was transmitted with HIV at birth by her mother. She had recovered from severe AIDS after HAART was initiated five years earlier. This is the first case reported in the literature of retroviral rebound syndrome in a vertically transmitted HIV-infected patient. Introduction Primary acute retroviral syndrome develop in more than 50 of patients infected with HIV 1 2 and more commonly when HIV is sexually transmitted than intravenously 3 . Acute retroviral syndrome has also been reported in children infected through breastfeeding 4 but there are no reports so far describing a similar seroconversion illness in children infected in utero or at birth. In rare cases symptoms similar to those of acute HIV infection can develop after antiretroviral treatment interruption 4-9 . The clinical presentations of this retroviral .