Conclusion:
This presentation of a young HIV-infected patient is unusual and very
uncommon. It points out the risk of subclinical HIV infection, and the
increased risk of CAD and stroke in this young HIV-infected population.
It also highlights the importance of routine out-patient HIV testing in
such emergency cases, in that it reduces the chances of debilitating
diseases to go undiagnosed, only to be discovered by its severe
complications at a very late age, as in a case of a patient who was
diagnosed with HIV for the first time at the age of 74 (16).