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Silva,Marcio de Oliveira; Bastos,Milena; Martins Netto,Eduardo; Gouvea,Nancy Alves de Lima; Torres,Alex Jose Leite; Kallas,Esper; Watkins,David I; Altfeld,Marcus; Brites,Carlos. |
Acute HIV infection is rarely recognized as the signs and symptoms are normally unspecific and can persist for days or weeks. The normal HIV course is characterized by a progressive loss of CD4+ cells, which normally leads to severe immunodeficiency after a variable time interval. The mean time from initial infection to development of clinical AIDS is approximately 8-10 years, but it is variable among individuals and depends on a complex interaction between virus and host. Here we describe an extraordinary case of a man who developed Pneumocisits jiroveci pneumonia within one month after sexual exposure to HIV-1, and then presented with 3 consecutive CD4 counts bellow 200 cells/mm³ within 3 months, with no other opportunistic disease. Although... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: HIV; Acute infection; Progression; AIDS. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000300016 |
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Miranda-Filho,D.B.; Ximenes,R.A.A.; Barone,A.A.; Vaz,V.L.; Vieira,A.G.; Albuquerque,V.M.G.. |
The authors propose a clinical classification to monitor the evolution of tetanus patients, ranging from grade I to IV according to severity. It was applied on admission and repeated on alternate days up to the 10th day to patients aged > or = 12 years admitted to the State University Hospital, Recife, Brazil. Patients were also classified upon admission according to three prognostic indicators to determine if the proposed classification is in agreement with the traditionally used indicators. Upon admission, the distribution of the 64 patients among the different levels of the proposed classification was similar for the groups of better and worse prognosis according to the three indicators (P > 0.05), most of the patients belonging to grades I and... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tetanus; Progression; Classification; Clinical. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2006001000009 |
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