What diseases does an HP virus cause?
Roughly speaking, the diseases caused by HPV can be divided into benign and malignant diseases. Which disease is caused can be identified by the type of HPV that causes the disease. A distinction is made here between many so-called low-risk types and a few so-called high-risk types.
The low-risk types cause benign skin growths. These include, for example, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. These are recurring warts that form on the vocal folds of the patient.
Primarily they cause hoarseness, in the worst case they can lead to a partial closure of the airways. Nevertheless, these “vocal fold warts” are still counted among the benign diseases. Tumorous changes can be summarized as malignant diseases.
Prominent examples are cervical cancer or a skin cancer variant, the so-called epidermodysplasia verruciformis. The viruses nestle into the cells at the appropriate sites and block the cell-internal control mechanisms that are normally intended to prevent tumor development. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis is another disease.
These are recurrent warts that form on the vocal folds of the patients. Primarily they cause hoarseness, in the worst case they can lead to a partial closure of the airways. Nevertheless, these “vocal fold warts” are still counted among the benign diseases.
Tumorous changes can be summarized as malignant diseases. Prominent examples are cervical cancer or a skin cancer variant, the so-called epidermodysplasia verruciformis. The viruses nestle into the cells at the appropriate sites and block the cell-internal control mechanisms that are normally intended to prevent tumor development.
- Flat skin warts
- Deepening mandible nipples
- Dampening nipples
- Warts in the anogenital area
What symptoms may indicate an HP virus?
A clear distinction between symptoms and a complete clinical picture cannot really be made when human papilloma viruses are infected. In the case of benign HPV viruses, the development of warts is both a symptom and ultimately the complete clinical picture.Since warts in humans are only caused by human papilloma viruses, further research into their causes is not necessary. Only the determination of the HPV type could be of importance in order to weigh up the risk of developing a tumor.
Symptoms for the presence of a manifest tumor, on the other hand, are the triad of the so-called “B-symptomatics”, consisting of: This triad is a leading symptom of tumor diseases in later stages. However, these tumor diseases are not a manifestation of a recent infection with human papilloma viruses, but occur decades later, so that an existing “B-symptomatics” only serves as an indirect indication of an HPV infection, since the tumor disease can also have a completely different origin.
- Fever
- Night sweat
- Unintentional weight loss
