Ultrastructural characteristics and DNA immunocytochemistry in human immunodeficiency virus and zidovudine-associated myopathies

Electron microscopic features of muscle biopsies from 13 human immunodeficiency (HIV)-positive patients who had myopathy while receiving zidovudine (AZT) were compared with biopsies from five patients with HIV-induced myopathy who were not treated with AZT. All specimens showed disorganization of the myofibrillar structures, along with a varying degree of nemaline (rod) bodies, vacuolization, inflammation, and endothelial tubuloreticular...