KS in HIV negative people?

[selle]

is someone who's HIV negative gets the virus that causes kaposi's sarcoma, what can happen to them usually?

also, what would happen if an HIV negative person started HAART therapy?

[regularjoey]

KSHV is usually controlled without a problem by immunocompetent people.  HAART doesn't always completely restore the immune function.

[selle]

so wud immunocompetant people not get any KS lesions at all if they do NOT have HIV?

[regularjoey]

It is uncommon, but possible.  In general there aren't any physical symptoms HIV+ people get that HIV- people can't get.  It's that certain problems are more common in people with HIV/AIDS.

[Teak]

Chris, what did you mean by that statement.

However, I have in my practice, and other KS doctors have in their practices, folks with KS who are neither elderly nor HIV- positive.

[tracy789]

How have those people with KS but not HIV positive been medically treated?

[Teak]

The same way as those with HIV are, with liposome drugs . People with HIV that are on HAART medications rarely get KS. That's why you rarely here about KS now a days.