PMID- 28552210 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170831 LR - 20220318 IS - 0740-2570 (Print) IS - 0740-2570 (Linking) VI - 34 IP - 4 DP - 2017 Jul TI - Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS): What pathologists should know. PG - 340-351 LID - S0740-2570(17)30055-2 [pii] LID - 10.1053/j.semdp.2017.04.010 [doi] AB - Antiretroviral therapy has significantly improved the quality and length of life for those patients able to access effective and sustained treatment. The resulting restoration of the immune response is associated with a change in the clinical presentation of opportunistic infections, and the histologic reaction to pathogens. A complex combination of alterations in host response across the stages of HIV infection has been documented over the past 3 decades. The defects are seen in both acute and chronic phases of inflammation and involve innate and adaptive immunity. In advanced stages of HIV infection, the marked disruption of lymphoid tissue and loss of follicular dendritic cells limits the host's ability to process antigen and mount specific responses to pathogens. There are qualitative and quantitative defects in CD4 T cells due to HIV infection. The resulting indirect effects include loss of cytokine production, dysregulation of B-cell function, loss of cellular mediated immunity and "holes" in the immunologic repertoire that may not be restored with the use of antiretroviral therapy. Immune reconstitution allows the host to respond to and control infection, but a significant number of patients will have atypical inflammatory syndromes during the recovery period. We briefly discuss the impact of HIV infection on the immune system and give an overview of the spectrum of conditions attributed to the Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory syndrome (IRIS). CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Nelson, Ann Marie AU - Nelson AM AD - InPaLa Consulting, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: amnpath62@gmail.com. FAU - Manabe, Yukari C AU - Manabe YC AD - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. FAU - Lucas, Sebastian B AU - Lucas SB AD - Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20170426 PL - United States TA - Semin Diagn Pathol JT - Seminars in diagnostic pathology JID - 8502262 RN - 0 (Anti-Retroviral Agents) SB - IM MH - Anti-Retroviral Agents/adverse effects MH - *HIV Infections/drug therapy MH - Humans MH - *Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome MH - Pathology, Clinical OTO - NOTNLM OT - AIDS OT - Antiretroviral therapy OT - HIV OT - IRIS OT - Immune reconstitution OT - Immune restoration OT - Opportunistic infections EDAT- 2017/05/30 06:00 MHDA- 2017/09/01 06:00 CRDT- 2017/05/30 06:00 PHST- 2017/05/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/09/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/05/30 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0740-2570(17)30055-2 [pii] AID - 10.1053/j.semdp.2017.04.010 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Semin Diagn Pathol. 2017 Jul;34(4):340-351. doi: 10.1053/j.semdp.2017.04.010. Epub 2017 Apr 26.