Carvajal A, Castillo S, Suarez R, Sanchez M, Gonzalez N; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 441 (abstract no. 23496).
Hospital Universitario de Caracas (HUC), Venezuela.
HIV-1 infection, AIDS, and related diseases have had a tremendous impact on women's health worldwide. In Venezuela, the first case of AIDS in a female patient was reported in 1984; since then until June, 1997, a total of 696 cases has been registered. HUC and IOH have pioneered the clinical care of infected women, so we decided to analyze seropositive patients seen in these centers METHODS: Medical records from 125 HIV-1 infected women seen between April 1984 and December 1996 were retrospectively studied. Sixty two (49.6%) had AIDS Data about age, citizenship, symptoms, signs, risk factors, neoplasia and opportunistic infections were collected. Autopsies were done in 14 cases. RESULTS: Average age was 38 years (range 16-61) One hundred (80%) were Venezuelan, twenty five (20%) foreigners. Most important risk factor was heterosexual transmission (121 patients, 96.8%). Intravenous drug use was present in 2 patients (1.6%), transfusions in 1 (0.8%) and occupational transmission due to blood exposure in 1 (0.8%). Most frequent symptoms in the 62 AIDS cases were: fever (32), weight loss (31), respiratory symptoms (27), diarrhoea (21). One hundred episodes of opportunistic infections were diagnosed, being the most frequent: Candidiasis 25 (40%), p. carinii pneumonia 13 (20%), HPV 9 (14.5%), criptosporidiosis 8 (12%) bacterial infections 8 (12%) and tuberculosis 6 (9.6%). Neoplasia were present in 9 cases: cervix carcinoma in 4 (6.45%), Kaposi's Sarcoma in 4 (6.45%), inmunoblastic lymphoma in 1 (1.6%). This is the first contribution to the study of HIV-1 infection and AIDS in women Venezuela.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Demography
- Female
- HIV Infections
- Health
- Health Personnel
- Humans
- Opportunistic Infections
- Risk Factors
- Sarcoma, Kaposi
- South America
- Tuberculosis
- Venezuela
- psychology
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UI: 102229124
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