Severe Crohn’s Disease in a HIV-HCv Co-Infected Man

We report the case of a man 47-year-old, with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection diagnosis since 1998. When he was twenty, he had been intravenous drug user. In November 2006 he had 608 lymphocytes CD4/μl and a viral load of 12.600 cop/ml of HIV, without antiretroviral treatment (ART), but a HCV viral load of 5.000.000 UI/ml, genotype 1 and portal hypertension in echography. He began treatment with pegylated interferon (p-IFN) and ribavirin at a dose of 180 μg/week and 1500 mg/ day respectively, for his first time, in January 2007. At week 12, the HCV viral load was 185 UI/ml.