HIV-INFECTION AND KIDNEY DISORDER - STUDI ES ON 16 CASES

We describe 16 patients With HIV-associated nephropathy. 8/16 had heav y proteinuria and a morphologic pattern of focal segmental glomerulosc lerosis on renal biopsy. Only half of them had Sida. Despite Retrovir and ACE inhibitors 5/8 died, 2 of them as a consequence of progressive renal failure. One patient, only lightly immunodepressed, had IgA nep hropathy without renal insufficiency. 8/16 had tubulo-interstitial nep hropathy or glomerulonephritis associated with opportunistic infection s or drugs.