HIV infection in elderly people

Although AIDS affects especially young people, older persons are not free f rom this disease. We undertook this review to describe the clinical present ation of HN disease in older patients. In our hospital since 1994 we have a ttended 10 HIV infected patients over 55 years of age at the time of diagno sis. In our elderly-patients the main transmission path is the sexual behav ior. The HIV infection was generally unsuspected and patients were diagnose d when the immunity is seriously compromised and suffering from disastrous infections and in critical clinical circumstances. Compared with younger HI V infected people, the incidence of others no infectious problems were prob ably greater. And finally the older complications of remote infections (neu rosyphilis) were more frequent.