EXTENSIVE VASCULAR CALCIFICATION IN PATIENT WITH PERINATALLY ACQUIREDAIDS

Extensive vascular calcification in an 8-year-old girl with perinatall y acquired AIDS is reported. Complicating factors included cardiomyopa thy, chronic lung disease, disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (M AC), and wasting syndrome with total nutrition dependence. Plain abdom inal films and CT of the abdomen immediately prior to her death reveal ed dense calcification of major vessels. Autopsy revealed calcificatio n in the media of most major vessels typical of HIV arteriopathy. A re view of the literature failed to reveal a description of similar vascu lar calcifications in pediatric AIDS.