Retrospective Study of 23 Cases of Psoriasis Association with HIV Infection Observed in the Department of Dermatology-STD in the University Hospital of Donka Conakry Guinea

Introduction: The psoriasis is one of the inflammatory dermatoses with unknown etiology, with chronic evolution having episodic appearance and disappearance.Its prevalence in HIV patients varied from 2% to 5% in most of the times.Objective of this study was to describe the demographic, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of psoriasis patients infected with HIV.Methods: It is a descriptive retrospective study done from January 2003 to December 2013 based on the information from the hospital card of hospitalized patients and outpatients taken care in the department of Dermatology-STD for psoriasis at the University hospital center in Donka Conakry.We included all the cases of psoriasis associated with HIV infection diagnosed from clinical and paraclinical elements.Results: We recorded 23 (24.73%) cases of psoriasis associated with HIV infection among 93 patients observed for psoriasis in which there are 4 cases of psoriasis vulgaris, 10 cases of erythrodermic psoriasis and 9 cases of arthropathic form among these numbers.We had 7 women and 16 men.The medium age of our patients was 44.5 ± 12 years [27 -62 years].The delayed duration time of consultation varied from 30 to more than 180 days.The psoriasis was the circumstance of the discovery of the HIV infection among 55% of cases.The pruritus was the functional sign which is the most frequent in 20 cases among 23 cases and 71.4% of cases were accompanied with pain.Family history was found in 7.10% of cases.Anxiety was the dominant factor cause in 42% and the infection 38%.The cutaneous alteration was noted in all patients; 92.9% of patients had nails alteration and intertrigineous association in 78.6% of cases.The clinical forms found were psoriasis