[Is it reasonable to perform any esthetic surgery in HIV positive patients?].

HIV seropositivity is becoming an increasingly frequent problem amongst candidates for aesthetic surgery. Although a routine screening test for HIV is not legally compulsory, it should nevertheless be requested prior to any aesthetic surgery. Is it reasonable to take the risk of aggravating the disease in order to perform purely elective aesthetic surgery? The answer to this question is not unequivocal, but must tend towards non-intervention, the reasons for which must be clearly explained to the patient in order to obtain his "informed consent".